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Surviving residential school: Need to educate, heal, reclaim


Winnipeg Free Press
By: Cody Sellar
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Dave Rundle was 10 years old in 1955 when a priest came to transport him and his five-year-old brother Lawrence to Fort Alexander Residential School. (Alex Lupul / Winnipeg Free Press)
His story doesn’t begin with a stranger in shadow-black darkening the door of his log cabin, but it is the first thing he mentions.
His story doesn’t begin with a stranger in shadow-black darkening the door of his log cabin, but it is the first thing he mentions.
It was the day in 1955 the priest came with papers in hand and the determination to steal away Dave Rundle, 10, and his brother Lawrence, 5, from their parents and grandparents, to force them into Fort Alexander Residential School. ....

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Winnipeg Free Press
Theodore Fontaine, 79, shined light on dark legacy of residential school system
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Fontaine and Holocaust survivor Nate Leipciger became, in the duo’s words, ‘best friends’ during nationwide speaking tours together on the trauma they experienced in youth.
In 1990, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Phil Fontaine shocked Canada, by speaking publicly about the physical and sexual abuse he endured during his time in the residential school system.
In 1990, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs leader Phil Fontaine shocked Canada, by speaking publicly about the physical and sexual abuse he endured during his time in the residential school system.
He talked about how he was not alone ( If there were 20 boys, every single one of them… would have experienced what I experienced ) and how this abuse led to cycles of pain and violence throughout generations of Indigenous families. ....

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