WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.

It’s been 50 years since Eddy Charlie left the Kuper Island Residential School, just off the east coast of Vancouver Island, and the pain he experienced while forced to attend, he says, has stayed with him throughout his life. 

He turned to alcohol as a way of coping, which led to anger and damaged relationships — with his community and his family. 

As the discovery of the remains of 215 children