07 Aug Aboriginal day school survivors sue federal government: Plaintiffs who say they suffered similar abuse hope Ottawa will include them in the residential school agreement (The Globe and Mail)
Gary McLean says that when he was seven years old and could not speak English, he was forced to attend Dog Creek Indian Day School. His older siblings taught him how to ask to go to the bathroom in English, but he says that didn’t save him from getting the strap when he spoke his native language of Ojibwa… go to article