It’s just so miserable out there. You never get to see your parents. Sometimes I have to stay at the at the residential for I say maybe, sometimes for two three weeks there, nobody’s around
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
Some boys were bad, some boys were bullies. I had younger brothers, two of them. It was bad
We were not allowed to speak our language. If we were… if some staff member overheard us, they would report us, and we would go to court or whatever he [likely referring to the principal] called it, because we were not allowed to speak our language. We were supposed to lose our language,
Made you pray, maybe seven times a day. Go to church every morning, whether you like it or not, on your hands and knees, on a cold cement floor to say your Catholic prayers.
I mean, we got there then they separated us from the boys and the girls and when… they had my new clothes taken away, my bannock… We were issued coveralls and army tight boots, and woollen socks, cotton shorts, and that’s the way we dressed and we were given numbers.
At times I would write a letter back to home, and they would drop it into the mailbox here so that they can deliver it in town or get the post person to. There was no phones, so, like the people say, if your kid dies here, it’s unnoticed.
First, we eat. When done eating, we are taken to the gym where the junior boys are. They put on boxing gloves on us to fight, it takes about a good two hours, I don’t know how many we fight, we take turns.
I mean kneel down, on our knees for a good half of the night. The guys were passing out and a lot of us guys the next day couldn’t even walk because of the cement floor and being on the knees and what not.
The basement of University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (UnBQ). Significant rooms include the boys’ and girls’ playrooms, dining room, kitchen and laundry facilities, and the boiler room. Click on the triangle to load the point cloud. Labels on the point cloud indicate past room functions.