Girls bathroom – Digitally Preserving Former Indian Residential Schools in Alberta

Donna Axe Running Rabbit- You Better Not Tattle

I would tell her, “I am going to tell my mother what you are doing.” She would just point to me with her right-hand finger right to my nose and tell me, “you better not tattle on me.”

Rita Jane Many Guns- What I Don’t Want My Kids to Go Through

I wanted them to speak English when they went to school. I didn’t want them to experience what I experienced

Eileen Black- I was so Sick

Then they took me out and I was brought to the hospital, the Blackfoot Indian hospital and here I had, it was, it was a kidney infection. I almost died from it

Margaret Cardinal- Herded Off to the Showers

I just want to talk about the hair thing again, and how it was very hard to… I can still feel the hair being cut on my head, on my head… and my head being shaved and having to be herded off to the showers and being scrubbed. When I got older, I was also […]

Agnes Gendron- That Fateful Day

We grew up, I remember my childhood, it was always loving and caring fun. The siblings played together in winter, summer, didn’t matter, fall. We all were together, until that fateful day we were brought to residential school.

Rachel First Rider- The Bad Ones

This one teacher would grab the back our necks and twist the skin, she hurt us so much. Or the ruler, she would hit us on the fingers. These are the bad ones who treated us bad, white men, white ladies… how badly they abused us when we lived here at the school.

Celeste Bull Bear- The Girl I was Scared of

And I didn’t want to cry because it hurt so bad because she kicked me really hard. And I was touching my forehead it was kind of like it was dented. And so that part that happened to me. The other part was the same one, it was always the same one that abused me. The other time was in the girl’s bathroom, she was pushing my head, like banging my head against the wall

Old Sun Community College First Floor

The First Floor/Basement of Old Sun Community College (OSCC). Click on the triangle to load the point cloud. Labels on the point cloud indicate past room functions. Labels on the Point Cloud indicate past room functions during Old Sun’s time as a residential school. Significant rooms include the boys’ and girls’ playrooms, dining room, kitchen and laundry facilities, and the boiler room.