Then I told that Miss Nash what had happened in there, and she was just looking at me as if… it seemed like she couldn’t really do anything
Donna Axe Running Rabbit- I Just Pushed Him
Tag: Second floor
Mandel Old Woman- It’s Worse than Being in Jail
For a four year old doing that, and mopping and scrubbing the floors and polishing the floors with a machine. You know at four years you’re not supposed be doing that.
Rita Jane Many Guns- And Then Another Time
I went to the bathroom we were already in bed, I got caught for getting up and I had to kneel outside, outside the door. I don’t know how long, my knees were really hurting from kneeling down
Rita Jane Many Guns- I was Terrified of Her and I was Scared
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
Eileen Black- They are Not Going to Beat Me
It now is a place of learning, so it is teaching people to have good lives. In that way all that ugliness will not win, the evil the was there
Eileen Black- She Never Quit Drinking in Her Life
They would talk about what they went through in residential school and how they treated badly. I used to think I was treated bad, but listening to them they were treated way worse
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.”
Allan Stevens- It Was Hard, Old Sun
Some boys were bad, some boys were bullies. I had younger brothers, two of them. It was bad
Treffery Deerfoot- I Got My Lickings After Church
I would ring the bell and wasn’t the time.. And while I sure got to licking after that… It was supposed to be a ceremony of praising God, but I got my lickings after church.
Verna Daly- They’ll Just Blame Me
I was sent away to go to Blue Quills school, and I was just a little kid, five years old. So, I had to go stay in the school and I was ahead of some of my classmates because I knew how to write, this and that, and I had learned English at the Charles Camsell Hospital.