The Fallen Feather - Kinetic Video

I have to go right back to what happened. Present social and economic
conditions of aboriginal people now and how there’s lots of causes for it but it’s
just implausible to think that the Residential Schools and the legacy of the
Residential Schools are not a big problem of a lot of the social dysfunctions for
aboriginal people.
Christopher Devlin, LP-CBA
The abuses that individuals experienced at Indian
Residential Schools but also highlighted and helped
us to understand the broader legacy in the contexts
of the community impacts and the family impacts,
and made us aware of the intergenerational nature
of this issue. The cycles of abuse and dysfunction
that are occurring and existing in communities as a
result of peoples experiences at the Indian
Residential schools.
Shawn Tupper, DG-IRSRC
But in some instances,
again getting back to the
Residential Schools, it
took away the ability for
parenting, at some points.
And that becomes
intergenerational. One
set of parents doesn’t
know how to parent it
becomes dysfunctional
within the society.
John Jules
I entered Fort Alexander Indian Residential School in September 1951. Before I
started Residential School all of my older siblings had been to the same school.
In fact there were four that were still resident, or still students there. And before
us, our parents, our mother, and father had been students at that school. And
before father and mother, my grandmother on my father’s side had been a
student at an Industrial School. So
we have a long personal history.
National Chief Pill Fontaine, AFN
But when the Grand Chief was
talking about how he comes from a
family of survivors. And he went to
school, but then he said, “because
we have little boy and he is not
even two.” And he said, “My
mother having attended the Residential Schools, suffered Residential Schools,
and had to watch us be taken by an Indian Agent to the same school to
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