Meet the Journalist: Daniella Zalcman

For more than a century, the Canadian government operated a network of Indian residential schools that were meant to assimilate young indigenous students into western Canadian culture. Indian agents would take children, as young as two or three years old, from their homes and send them to church-run boarding schools where they were punished for speaking their native languages or observing any indigenous traditions. They were sexually and physically assaulted routinely, and in some extreme instances, subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization.

In this video, Daniella Zalcman discusses how she began covering Canada's Indian residential schools and what she hopes students take away from her work.