“She said: ‘There’s no way my church would do this. There’s no way my church would take the kids and put them in these schools and run these schools.’ It was so hard for her to believe it. It was unbelievable,” said Joseph, who is hosting a virtual talk and Q&A through the Vancouver Island Regional Library on Jan. 28 to share some of the surprising elements of the laws that govern Indigenous people, governments and lands. The best-selling author of 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act says the participants in his workshops these days tend to know a lot more about residential schools, but people are still caught off guard by the Indian Act.