The Forgotten People: Métis Residential School Survivors

The Forgotten People
The history of the Métis people and their attendance at Indian Residential Schools is a historical experience that has profoundly influenced our community. The impact has affected the families of these individuals for generations.
This dark chapter in our history is one that we feel needs to be recorded to help our people heal and address the intergenerational impact of this distressing legacy upon our families and communities.
The Forgotten people video consists of 9 participants who share their personal experiences as residential school survivors and intergenerational survivors.
Through their strength and courage, we hope as a society, we all learn from history and walk forward with understanding, compassion, and change.

[@carriebauman1503]

My grandfather is Glen E Cardinal from Kikino Metis Settlement & he attended the residential school in St. Albert, AB currently known as Poundmakers Lodge I wish I learned more about his experience there but from what I was told was that he got TB and they basically left him in a room to die, after about 10 days of being in a comatose state he came out of it. He left that school with one lung. I'm sure he endured more but we will never know jkhis story as he passed away. RIP Grampy ❤️ best man I ever knew.

[@rudyrissone4298]

It is good that people are still alive to tell this. It is still happening .

[@fungi42o0]

never stopped

[@melissabrackin3790]

Chickasaw in Oklahoma. Thank you for sharing. All our stories need to be heard for healing.

[@denisethorbjornsen7493]

I'm so sorry that you had to go through this as children I pray your lives are better now

[@plumskiter]

excellent and heartbreaking explanation of the generational impact of being raised without love. such a misguided tragedy.

[@wackywally69420]

of my great grandfather's 5 siblings, only 1 brother survived their time in Métis residential school in St. Albert as far as i know. The rest of his siblings died of tuberculosis a few years or months after attending. My great grandfather never talked to anyone about his experience, but he was broken when he lost his siblings. I know this from stories and never got to meet him to ask him anything directly. "Its hard to love anybody" hits home for me, even though i didnt attend, my great grandfather must have passed on the trauma - my dad never spoke to his father because of his abuse and now im not speaking to him for similar reasons.

[@FrostJack-tv6op]

I stand with you all . I have been through this . I had my youth taken because of the money system. Broken bones lies, abuse programming torture. Then left to rot after . Here's my mark to stand in history with brothers an sisters for the future generations. Who must never let this happen again. My spirit is with you all.

[@marcykowalchuk5941]

I so appreciate hearing the stories.

[@sadboyasd]

as an metis man this makes me cry for my indigenous bothers and sisters, la pae miina lamoor. 😪

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

Here I am as an Australian with tears in my eyes, the shame of a nation and to be honest the govt was doing the same to our Aboriginal and half breed children in Australia.

[@karinelsinga4357]

❤️💓❤️ Much love to you all

[@marcykowalchuk5941]

We should never forget

[@deitrestolbert4442]

That wasn't God that treat you like that...man made religion.... slavery was the same in US..separated families apart...and know today drugs are doing the same thing...but we must be strong and try to out think the oppressor......🙏

[@jacquelinekezema2907]

Please not just indigenous language but every language in the world deserves to be heard no matter where you live country region whatever

[@lisadawn9457]

nohtawiy kisakihitin mistahi kakike

[@jn1211]

tell us how the english speakers are keeping english from being heard. then please tell me how that matters when the english speakers made sure through literal fucking genocide that I'd never get to speak my own peoples language. [disabled in legislated poverty with literally no hope of things getting better means no extras, only survival]

[@jn1211]

when you "what about" an issue that has literally never been addressed from a systematic level, you're actively engaging in the behaviour that got our languges eliminated in the first place.

[@dwentlandt1022]

Language and culture and family should never be taken from anyone. As a white person, we don’t have history, our history was to steal from others and destroy it in the process. Both in Canada and the United States.

[@Heritage-d2c]

As an investigative historian I have always wanted to research these teachers, priests, and nuns but I need names. I pay attention to these residential school stories but I never hear names of the people who strapped and beat these kids, who fed them unfit food, and abused them in general. I need some names.

[@marcykowalchuk5941]

It is disgusting what happened. God please help survivers heal.

[@CavemanOfTheCrags]

I thought y'all prayed to animals & trees LOL!

[@Crazy_Christine84]

@CavemanOfTheCrags go waste your time elsewhere. Clearly you're an imbecile with zero respect for others. Ffs 🤦‍♀️

[@TashaSmirnoff]

My Metis Kokom was allowed to attend residential school, until the government burnt down their home and shipped the family in cattle cars to Green Lake SK in the 1930s

[@Heritage-d2c]

Was the home that burned down in SK too, before they were shipped to Green Lake? I ask because I have heard of a similar story in the same time frame, in Ontario where their homes were burnt, and they were put on a train to somewhere out of the area.

[@CavemanOfTheCrags]

Please! Explain how what happened 100 years ago justifies your terrible behavior today...

[@Crazy_Christine84]

​@@CavemanOfTheCragsis a disrespectful ignorant 😒 pos

[@mickster655]

Did they ever attend regular public schools? I don't remember any Chippewa or Indians period.

[@Heritage-d2c]

I would like to know if any parents were actually put in jail?

[@marcykowalchuk5941]

Why were we not taught this in school. I graduated in 1989. School was such a joke. I admit i hated school. Its because of my mom that i survived school

[@HenCham-fx7do]

An old sage once told me about a wierd story thati didnt understand,yet,do you guys heard about John traverse the rivers?

[@carolfromalbertacanada]

😪😪😪😪😪😪😪🙏🏽

[@ardshielcomplex8917]

Why was it allowed to happen to Children ?

[@JuvyThaKid]

To erase the language, beliefs, and culture in general. They rounded the kids and taught them their Christian or Catholic ways so they didn't grow up learning their native languages and beliefs. They did what they could to erase everything about Inuit, Métis, and First Nations culture so they could have Canada for themselves. Same things the Brits tried to do with Ireland and Scotland 100s of years before.