https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy Powerful passages about the residential school experience en-us 2017-03-29 13:27:08 UTC 2017-04-07 03:42:06 UTC hello@padlet.com carmelina_prete https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163413549 "I read once that there are holes in the universe that swallow all light, all bodies. St. Jerome's took all the light from my world. Everything I knew vanished behind me with an audible swish, like the sound a moose makes disappearing into spruce" (43).]]> 2017-03-29 13:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163413549 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490720 "They called it a school, but it was never that... There were no tests or examinations. The only test was out ability to endure" (79)]]> 2017-03-29 17:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490720 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490820 " It felt like they were trying to remove more than just grime or odour. It felt as though they were trying to remove our skin." (44)]]> 2017-03-29 17:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490820 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490906 "I could never understand how the god they proclaimed was watching over us could turn his head away and ignore such cruelty and suffering" (52).]]> 2017-03-29 17:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490906 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490947 "At St. Jerome's we work to remove the Indian from our children so that the blessings of the Lord may be evidenced upon them." (46)]]> 2017-03-29 17:03:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163490947 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491135 "When your innocence is stripped from you, when your people are denigrated,  when the family you came from  is denounced, and your tribal ways and rituals are pronounced backward, primitive,savage, you come to see yourself as less than human. That is hell on earth, that sense of unworthiness. That is what they inflicted on us." (81)]]> 2017-03-29 17:04:05 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491135 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491219 "On the second day I was there, a boy named Curtis White Fox had his mouth washed out with lye soap for speaking Ojibway. He choked on it and died right there in the classroom. He was ten." (46)]]> 2017-03-29 17:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491219 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491244 "We're going to have to do something about Loonie Rabbit. I think Aaron is more suitable. From now on you are Aaron Rabbit. Do you understand?" Page 45]]> 2017-03-29 17:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491244 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491426 "I saw kids die from tuberculosis, influenza, pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome's." (55)  ]]> 2017-03-29 17:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491426 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491643 "He always had a runny nose and he wiped it with the sleeves of his shirts...He'd wrapped his own hands begin his back before he'd jumped." 
(Pg 49-50)]]> 2017-03-29 17:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491643 carmelina_prete https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491791 "They called it a school. But it was never that." 79]]> 2017-03-29 17:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491791 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491979 "I saw kids die of tuberculosis, influenza , pneumonia and broken hearts at St. Jerome

]]> 2017-03-29 17:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163491979 carmelina_prete https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492303 "Mystery fills us with awe and wonder. They are the foundations of humility, and humility, grandson, is the foundation of learning. So we do not seek to unravel this. We honour it by letting it be that way forever." (65) ]]> 2017-03-29 17:07:44 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492303 tolulovescandy https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492352 "Well, the Lord God is your father now and he wants you called Aaron" (Pg.45)]]> 2017-03-29 17:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492352 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492457 "The Indian yard. That's what the kids called it. Row on row of of unmarked graves"
Pg 50]]> 2017-03-29 17:08:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492457 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492578 "They learned to speak without moving their lips, an odd ventriloquism that allowed them to keep their talk alive." Page 48]]> 2017-03-29 17:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163492578 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163493881 "St. Jerome's took all the light from my world. Everything I knew vanished behind me with an audiable swish, like the sound a moose makes disappearing into spruce." (pg. 43)]]> 2017-03-29 17:12:08 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163493881 https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163493914 "No one comes back from there the same. Ever." (51)]]> 2017-03-29 17:12:12 UTC https://padlet.com/carmelina_prete/mkoeiae3olqy/wish/163493914