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Connie Walker and the firsthand legacy of residential schools

Connie Walker has reported extensively on Canadas residential schools, but shes also seen the effects on her family firsthand.
A group of students and a nun pose in a classroom at Cross Lake Indian Residential School in Cross Lake, Man., in February 1940. (Reuters/Library and Archives Canada)

For the CBC's Connie Walker, it's a story that hits close to home.

For over a century, tens of thousands of aboriginal children were forcibly removed fromtheir families, sent to live in church run residential schools. They suffered emotional andsexual abuse. Some never returned.

It's taken years to voice and acknowledge the damage caused by residentialschools through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Connie has reported extensively on Canada's residential schools, but she's also seen theeffects firsthand on her own family.

This is Connie's Back Story.

Children hold letters that spell "goodbye" at Fort Simpson Indian Residential School, in Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories in a 1922 archive photo. (Library and Archives Canada)