"Napier's groundbreaking story brought the grim facts of the schools to a readership that needed to understand what had gone on but was unlikely to plow through the report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples."
"The Journal was interested in the schools because, following the revelatory hearings of the Royal Commission, residential school survivors had filed about 7,000 lawsuits against the churches that ran the schools until 1969."
"While doing exploratory documentary research at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, Napier came upon correspondence about a nutrition experiment led by a federal civil servant that was conducted in six residential schools between 1948 and 1952."
"The point of the experiment was to see which, if any, of several vitamin and mineral supplements might make a difference to the health of the generally malnourished students."
In 2000, David Napier wrote a significant article about Indigenous residential schools for the Anglican Journal. His work aimed to inform readers about the experiences of survivors and staff, as many were unaware of the details documented in official reports. Following the Royal Commission's hearings, thousands of lawsuits were filed against the churches involved, leading to potential bankruptcies. Napier discovered a nutrition experiment conducted in residential schools, highlighting the known malnutrition of students by authorities.
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