Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan puts names to 300 of 751 unmarked graves
CBC
Carol Lavallee spent Thursday afternoon at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan listening to members of Cowessess First Nation sing, dance and pray.
More than 60 years ago, she would have been inside the now-demolished school, looking out a window and dreaming of freedom.
Lavallee was forced to attend the school when she was six years old, and stayed there from 1957 to 1967.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark Canada's first Truth and Reconciliation Day, she said she had to come to terms with returning to the spot where the school once stood.
"Land is sacred to Indigenous Peoples. I couldn't say this land was sacred because I suffered here," Lavallee said. "Horrible things happened to me here."
She said the Catholic Church drilled the Ten Commandments into the students.
"Thou shall not steal — and here they stole everything from us. Our spirits, our parents. Everything that was precious to us they stole from us," said Lavallee.
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