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I attended the hearing held in Halifax when Murry Sinclair was moderating the telling of the individual stories and submitted a short piece on electric chair victimization that I had learned about occurred in a residential "school." I found this Small Change article interesting.

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Thank you Doreen; you have given us more links to understand in greater depth.

The idea of demoralizing the indigenous population seemed to work.

At teachers college in 1960, a friend from Manitoulin Island and I were discussing how hard it was to come back to class after a two week break at home.

She said “my friends didn’t make it any easier for me. One of them said, ‘ You think you are better than us but you are just a dirty old drunken Indian like the rest of us.’ “

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