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Religious training • 89 medicines, he used to pick. By this time then I was going back on the last years, I forgot all about those. 310 Not all teachers attempted to frighten students out of their traditional beliefs. Ula Hotonami recalled telling a sympathetic teacher at the United Church school that she attended in Round Lake that her family did not attend church. I said, “We, I like to go to Sun Dances.” I said, “It’s getting summer time now, I want to go to Sun Dance, ’cause I always go to Sun Dance with my grandma and them, and we always take part in there. We fast, and we don’t, she doesn’t make us fast all day,” I said, “because we’re still young and, and that,” I told her. “<strong>The</strong>n, but as we got older, our, our, every summer,” I said, “was a little bit more hours we had to fast,” I said, “but she made sure that we, she got us up before sunrise. We had to, we could eat before sunrise. And then she’d talk to the Elders after. She’d tell them how long we were gonna fast, and we would fast that long. We wouldn’t eat nor drink, but she made us sit in a lodge, and listen to them talking and that.” According to Hotonami, the teacher told her, “Keep faith, ’cause you won’t be here very long, then you could go back to that again,” she’d tell, tell me that. And I told her, “But that’s not right.” I said, “Like, we have to go to church every Sunday, and I don’t like going to church,” I told her, and she said, “Well, we can’t, we can’t stop it,” she said. “So just try hard, and just go to church, and just sit there.” 311 Many students were confused by the contradictory combination of religious teaching and harsh discipline. Julianna Alexander, a former Kamloops school student, said, You know they were trying to tell me that’s this church, or this place we’re in, you know, I had to do, I had to be this perfect, perfect person or whatever. And yet at the same time, that’s not what I saw. Because I thought to myself, well, if you’re a priest and nun, how come you’re doing this to this child, or you’re doing this to me, and I would say it out loud, and I’d get more lickings. 312 For other students, a religious education was one of the key benefits of residential schooling. Mary Stoney was proud of both the religious training she received at residential school and the skills she took away from Julianna Alexander. her education. “I learned a lot of good things at the residential school over the years, my church beliefs and culture has brought happiness and healing to my family.” 313 Elizabeth Papatie said she learned important skills at the Amos, Québec, school. “I learned to look after myself, to dress properly, and to, to brush my hair, and to be nice and
90 • Truth & Reconciliation Commission tidy, because the woman I had stayed with, she had told me how to look after myself and be nice and tidy, and to my, my manners and to speak well.” She also valued her religious education. “I learned religion at a very early age. I learned about Christianity and I loved it. I love beautiful things, I love beauty.” 314
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