Survivors like Clarence “Kat” Pennier know what went on at residential schools. But there are specific details he and others are searching to confirm, and he wonders if a detailed document he’s never seen before might have answers. 

Sitting with Pennier at the Stó:lō Nation’s Research and Resource Management Centre, we skim through a small portion of a 584-page document about the St. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Mission, B.C.