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Caribou contracts pneumonia once a year, like clockwork. The recurring
illness stems from her childhood years at one of Canada’s horrific
residential schools. “I was thrown into a cold shower every night,
sometimes after being raped”, the frail 50-year-old indigenous mother of
six said, matter-of-factly.
Caribou was snatched from her parents’ house in 1972 by the state-funded, church-run Indian Residential School system that brutally attempted to assimilate native children for over a century. She was only seven years old. “We had to stand like soldiers while singing the national anthem, otherwise, we would be beaten up”, she recalled.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/canada-dark-of-history-residential-schools
Caribou was snatched from her parents’ house in 1972 by the state-funded, church-run Indian Residential School system that brutally attempted to assimilate native children for over a century. She was only seven years old. “We had to stand like soldiers while singing the national anthem, otherwise, we would be beaten up”, she recalled.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/06/canada-dark-of-history-residential-schools
