St. Michael's Residential School: Lament & Legacy

One of the few accounts by care-givers in an Indian Residential School describing the horrific conditions.

In 1970 the authors were hired as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence (formerly St. Michael's Indian Residential School) on northern Vancouver Island. Shocked when Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families, punished for speaking their native language, fed substandard food and severely disciplined for minor offences, Dan and Nancy questioned the way the...