ImpressiveGrass3206 t1_iu3o50p wrote on October 28, 2022 at 9:31 AM

Reply to comment by Vannilazero in (Canada) House of Commons unanimously agrees to describe residential schools as genocide by EdithDich

I’ve met few survivors and I’ll tell you many of the First Nation people think their life is worthless.. one guy I met said his family had like wine cellar hidden under rug and when ever the RCMP (federal police) would show up with members of the Catholic Church they would round up children and take them away and his family hide all the older kids and gave him up and was abused physically and mentally. He cries in his sleep and it the most heartbreaking thing.

Stuvivor t1_iu4b1u8 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:28 PM

A residential school survivor spoke at my school around 2010. She said, when she tried speaking her Indigenous language, they hammered a nail through her tongue, so now, when she speaks her language, she feels her tongue tingle from the memory.