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The conditions were horrifying as Staats mentioned, “It was basically hell. They cut the children’s traditional hair; dress “normally” made our people pray to something that is so foreign to our traditional beliefs. Our people were treated like animals with manipulation and sexual abuse. They did everything to make it so we didn’t practice our traditional ways. The saying is ‘kill the Indian and save the man’, …it is a very powerful statement that happened over hundreds of years. The RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] would take kids away from their home to get them at a young age to prevent them from learning their true culture and heritage.” It was a cultural genocide.

The tragic and relatively unknown piece around this system is that this type of abuse did not end long ago, the last Residential School closed 25 years ago in 1996.

For Staats and many Indigenous people, the effects of these programs are still widespread.

“I’ve had family members who went to residential schools. It obviously wasn’t the greatest situation for them, there was a lot of abuse and mistreatment. A lot of elders who went to these schools don’t really talk about it and I understand why….It is something that has affected them so traumatically that they would want to forget and never remember it. It was probably something unimaginable.”

“On my dad’s side, my grandmother went to a Residential School. On my mom’s side, my great grandfather and grandmother went to a Residential School. It is not that talked about, and my mom’s dads’ side of the family basically had to run away from that and fit into white society without others knowing they were native to escape from going to Residential School.”

“I think a reason for them not wanting to talk about their experience is the fear of being punished or abused for speaking your mind and for being who you are. Why would they want to talk about it and bring up those horrifying memories? If I was put in those shoes, I would be scared and afraid to talk about it. I think it has an effect on our people to this day with things like depression, alcoholism, drug abuse and mental health. This stuff is not just one generation. There are generational effects to this day. Kids learn from their parents and so on and I think these effects hav

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