Stories continue to emerge, and it's clear there is more to learn about how the emotional and physical trauma inflicted by that act echoes today.īut in her quest to learn to read, Pokiak-Fenton found ways to cope. It took Canada years to acknowledge the devastation wrought by residential school systems, which saw approximately 150,000 aboriginal, Inuit and Métis children taken from their parents, some forcibly, and placed in church-run, government-funded schools. In those two years she did learn to read, but like many residential school students she endured bullying by caregivers, separation from her family and an education aimed at erasing much of her Inuvialuit knowledge. Now 76, Olemaun, whose full English name is Margaret Pokiak-Fenton, knows what happened to Alice. She went on to spend two years in the Catholic school in Aklavik. But before she left, he warned her that like rocks worn smooth by lapping water, her spirit would be worn down.
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