They said they told us to fold up our clothes and tie them with a belt, and from the fire escape to throw them right to the ground floor, and there, when it was time, we followed the older boys.
I’d wait for all the footsteps that go upstairs. It was time for bedtime. As soon as I hear the end, I just run to that door in the playroom, and I just run.
I think the only good experience’s out of it is when I joined the army, I was already trained. I think that’s about my story. Like I said I was already trained cause we are always doing this we had to stand in line for breakfast and what not. We had to stick by rules.
We all ran to the fence; we were yelling loudly and waving. It would stop and start… We finally noticed, it wasn’t touching the ground, it was floating.
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.
e were all screaming and running around. They were chasing us with that snake. They wouldn’t even let us go towards the door, to go inside. After that, those boys wouldn’t let us go back into the school.
When they were checking my teeth, here I had an abscess, it was really bad. He just went ahead and pulled it out. He didn’t even freeze it, he just started pulling it out. I remember, I was just screaming, I was just crying, and I was telling him to quit because it really hurt. He just told me to shut up, and the same time he started pulling, you know really pulling.
I got strapped by the teacher because I wasn’t listening. I was fooling around and she strapped me with that, it was like, a big ruler.
The University nuhelot’įne thaiyots’į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills (UnBQ) operates out of the Blue Quills IRS building constructed in 1930. Now UnBQ is governed by Beaver Lake Cree Nation, Cold Lake First Nations, Frog Lake Cree Nation, Heart Lake First Nation, Kehewin Cree Nation, Whitefish Lake First Nation #128, and Saddle Lake Cree Nation.
The Exterior of Poundmaker’s Lodge Carriage House. The Carriage House Functioned as a Storage Area, Classroom, and Dormitory for the Edmonton Indian Residential School. The Carriage House All that Remains of the School following its Destruction by Fire in 2000. Click on the triangle to load the point cloud.