Share your Memories
Search
This section of the archive is open for community.
If you attended one of the residential schools in this archive, we invite you to submit a memory of your time there so that others may learn the truth about what you experienced. Click on the Share your Memories Button and a submissions box will appear. If you would like to include a photograph, click on the Choose File Button in the Upload a Photo Section. You can include your name or remain anonymous. Once you are done, simply click Submit. All stories are reviewed by an Indigenous Advisory Group prior to appearing in the archive. Sharing memories can be triggering and we encourage all contributors to please seek support if needed. Some sources of support include: Indian Residential School Survivors and Family, 1-800-721-0066; National Indian Residential School Crisis Line 1-866-925-4419.
Eileen Black- They are Not Going to Beat Me
It now is a place of learning, so it is teaching p…
Read more
Eileen Black- We Never Had Good Nutritious Meals
We had to eat it. I can’t say I didn’t eat it beca…
Read more
Eileen Black- She Never Quit Drinking in Her Life
They would talk about what they went through in re…
Read more
Eileen Black- They had No Compassion for Us
I always remember the darkness and the fear that I…
Read more
Eileen Black- I was so Sick
Then they took me out and I was brought to the hos…
Read more
Eileen Black- The Teachers Were so Cruel
They tell us, “you are stupid. You are stupid, you…
Read more
Allan Stevens- We Snuck Away
We snuck away from school; the police were looking…
Read more
Allan Stevens- It Was Bad What they Call Residential School
If we are late for supper, the following weekend w…
Read more
Allan Stevens- It Was Hard, Old Sun
Some boys were bad, some boys were bullies. I had…
Read more
Olivia Good Rider- Things I Saw in the Girls’ Playroom
Even to this day when I enter this building all th…
Read more