In this episode, for Indigenous People's Day, we read In the Shadow of the Red Brick Building about Residential Schools in Canada and how they would treat indigenous people. This book is super important but also very depressing and tough. We do have trigger warnings for s*xual abuse, child abuse, and suicide. We learn more about the movements Raymond Charlie has been working on for years and how abuse at the boarding schools have impacted many native lives.

Here is a link into more about one of the abusers and a boy found in the gymnasium. https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/kuper-island-residential-school-richard-thomas

Here is more about some abuse in the residential schools: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/more-sex-charges-laid-in-cornwall-1.227298

Our next book club read will be Local Woman Missing by Mary Kubica and we will be talking about the first 1/3 of the book (to page 130) in the next episode. We hope you'll read along with us! In the meantime, follow us on Instagram or TikTok for podcast updates and other book stuff by searching @twobitchesreadingbooks.