She noticed me, that I couldn’t pronounce yellow. She came my right to my desk telling me to say yellow but I couldn’t say it
Rita Jane Many Guns- I was Terrified of Her and I was Scared
Tag: Classroom
Eileen Black- The Teachers Were so Cruel
They tell us, “you are stupid. You are stupid, you don’t know anything, and you are not going to ever learn anything. You are so stupid in English.”
Old Sun Classroom
This computer reconstruction approximates how classrooms at Old Sun Indian Residential school would have appeared. This reconstruction was created using historic photographs as well as descriptions provided by former students.
Rosemary Red Gun- Beaten with a Stick
He hit me with it on my arm and I thought, “there he finished hitting me.” But he hit me again on the same arm, and then, one after the other one, he kept on hitting me and then my back. I don’t know how many times he hit me with the stick on my back.
Celeste Bull Bear- You Don’t Want the Other Children to Laugh
“This is page thirteen, now use your ears.” Honestly, she just came, she just grabbed my left ear, and she just twisted it. And I could… I just heard that cracking sound, and I just starting crying. And she told me, “you be quiet, you quit crying, you don’t want all the other children laughing at you.” So that’s what, that’s what I went through.
Alvina Bear Chief- We Were Scared of Him
she was laughing really hard and I was just looking at him. He was just staring at her. And he just jumped up and started hitting her with his ruler. We pitied her. She was crying. We couldn’t help her. Rulers hurt very much.