Canada's First Nations and Cultural Genocide by Robert Z. Cohen

Author:Robert Z. Cohen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

After work there might be time to play sports or socialize. Boys were kept separate from girls. After dinner there was a period for more prayers, and then lights out.

“WE WERE HUNGRY”

The food at the residential schools was cheap and often unhealthy, and there was rarely enough. Students were fed badly and often went hungry. Although farm products such as meat, dairy, and vegetables were produced at the schools as part of work training, most of these products were sold to produce income for the schools. If the Native students drank milk, it was skimmed first to take off the fat to make butter to sell. At the Aklavik School, Woodie Elias recalled to the TRC, “You didn’t get enough: hungry! So once in a while we’d go raid the cellar and you can’t call that stealing: that was our food.”

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