[news] Surviving Canada: June 18: Blackfoot Country

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The way that "George" Sikappi Yellowhorn found out that he was going to begin attending Residential School was when his mother woke him up early one morning, just shy of his seventh birthday. After eating breakfast, Sikappi's mother began to dress him up. He asked why, quite confused. He was told by his mother that she had received a letter from the Indian Agent informing her that her son was to go to school, or else the RCMP would seize him for the same. Every detail of the morning is spelled out when Sikappi tells the story.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/21/164127/883