Allan Stevens- We Snuck Away
Okay I am going to talk about another thing. These boys that I snuck away with, are all gone on, they are no longer here. DYF, LLH, and myself, the 3 of us. We snuck away from school; the police were looking for us. We got caught and brought back to school. They strapped us continuously on our hands. The supervisor wet the strap and strapped us on our hands. We were angrily sent to bed and they also did not feed us ‘til the next day we got something to eat. They have all gone on, the ones I snuck away, those boys. They say it is bad, what they call residential school. Others, we got treated bad us, my younger brothers. If we didn’t fight back, my uncle told us fight back if you don’t fight back, you will be treated really bad so we fought back and they left us alone most of the time. There were some boys who were mean. If we had candy they would take it away from us, our candy. That’s how bad what they call residential school.
– Allan Stevens
Notes:
Oral interview with Allan Stevens. Conducted, translated, and transcribed by Gwendora Bear Chief. Old Sun Community College, March 23, 2022.
