On his 16th birthday, Ron Ignace’s residential school allowed him to go into town unsupervised. He didn’t go back, instead hiding in his aunt and uncle’s house. ‘That was the best damn decision I ever made in my life.’
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What I told my child about the Kamloops graves—to honour the 215
An Indigenous mother describes the exhaustion of hearing about residential school trauma, and her determination to share those stories with the next generation