ALT The Title reads, “Confronting 4 myths about Canada’s Indian residential schools”. The text below the title read: “Swipe to read the story” with an arrow that points to the right, and “The following slides contain distressing information about residential schools. Please view with care.”

ALT The title reads, “Myth 1: “Indian residential schools are a hoax. There’s no proof anything bad happened.”” The text below reads, “More than 4,000 deaths at the schools were documented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). Ongoing investigations into suspected gravesites may add to that number. Evidence about the history and harms of residential schools is abundant. The TRC cites thousands of government and church documents to describe the design and operation of the school system.”

ALT Many survivors have spoken out, written memoirs and testified about the reality of residential schools. Ignoring all this evidence is an act of willful denial. The federal government and churches that ran the schools have acknowledged and apologized for their many serious harms.

ALT The title reads, “Myth 2: “Most kids died from tuberculosis in the schools. Everyone died from tuberculosis back then.”. The body text reads, “Children in residential schools had a higher death rate than Canadian soldiers fighting in the Second World War. No school system should be deadlier than a war zone. Indigenous children died at a rate of 2 to 5 times higher than non-Indigenous children from tuberculosis and other diseases.”