MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: It's as if he's back there. It was really uncomfortable during the day and the night. And this supervisor asked me to follow him to the third floor. My sisters went in one direction, and I followed my older brothers. JOHN JONES: When we walked into the door, there were supervisors there. John Jones, member of the Nanoose First Nation and survivor of the Alberni Residential School. ( Pecos, Co-director of the Leadership Institute at the Santa Fe Indian School. Governing Circle Chair of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba. GuestsĬynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Chair on Truth and Reconciliation for Lakehead University. Today, On Point: Survivors of Canada's residential schools. Hundreds buried in recently discovered unmarked graves. Set up in the 19th century, Canada's residential schools were used to force assimilation of First Nations children. "And being assaulted verbally - if I didn’t do things the way that they wanted me to do, I was called a dirty, stupid Indian that would be good for nothing." "The physical abuse was every day," he says. "That’s what my life was like before residential school.”īut when he was just 7, Jones was sent to the Alberni Residential School in Canada. "The only important thing to a child is to play and be loved," Jones says. Sign up for the On Point newsletter here.Īt first, John Jones’ childhood wasn’t very different from other kids. (Cole Burston/AFP via Getty Images) This article is more than 1 year old.
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