Residential Schools

Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group

 

  • I remember speaking it a few times. And yeah, I did get punished. I got physically abused for that, physically.

Means: Whenever they broke any rules they got punished with mostly severe bodily harm and violence

  • I started getting sexually abused from this guy named George Mazinsky

Means: The people who worked for the schools, like teachers or supervisors could sexually abuse or beat the children whenever they wanted to, which caused the children to suffer from severe physical pain, and some of them still suffer from mental pain those abuses caused.

 

Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

  • I remember speaking it a few times. And yeah, I did get punished. I got physically abused for that, physically.

Means: Whenever they spoke their own language, they got punished (mostly beaten), so they would get rid of their own culture and adapt to the European culture.

  • We had to pray. At that time I knew about the Creator, but in their ways it was different. Everybody was talking about hell and I didn’t even know what was hell, and the devil and all this, and that we were heathens and all this. They say that everybody had sin.

Means: They made the children believe European religion, even though the children did not want to and mostly did not even know what they were talking about.

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