Healing the Generations
Residential School Curriculum

I lived in the bush with my family about twenty miles north of our home community. We used to go to the community at different times of the year to get supplies from the Hudson Bay Company store, things like flour, salt, tea, lard, and traps. When we went to the store my father always […]

I was born in the bush and I grew up in the bush. My father killed or trapped a variety of different animals and birds. My mother caught the fish in nets, which they had set, and she collected berries and other foods from the land. My older brothers also killed lots of different kinds […]

When I grew up I lived with my parents and my brothers and sisters. There were other people who also lived in the bush near where we lived. Some of these people were relatives, or kin, and others were people that my Dad trapped and hunted with. We spoke Ojibwe. Many of the words were […]