Sask. residential school survivors recall trauma on first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
CTV
On the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada, some Saskatchewan residential school survivors are remembering the trauma they endured.
A.J. Felix is one of them. Three generations of his family attended residential schools. While he openly talks aboutit, his parents don't like to talk about their experience at the school.
“They did state it was a very, very lonely place, and they had very strict rules. Their rules were worse than mine,” said Felix
Felix, 75, is from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. He said his parents went to school in the 1930s and he still remembers the first time he was taken from his home on the reservation in the back of a farm truck to go to residential school.
“And they were loading us up like cattle, I didn’t know what to think. I was too young. I know we were going for a ride,” Felix said.
