The Survivors Speak
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Contents<br />
Preface................................................................................................... v<br />
Introduction.......................................................................................... 1<br />
Life before residential school.............................................................. 3<br />
Forced departure.................................................................................. 13<br />
A place of refuge................................................................................... 19<br />
<strong>The</strong> journey........................................................................................... 23<br />
Arrival.................................................................................................... 31<br />
Language and culture........................................................................... 47<br />
Bedwetting............................................................................................ 59<br />
Daily life................................................................................................ 63<br />
Strange food.......................................................................................... 69<br />
School meals......................................................................................... 71<br />
Chores................................................................................................... 79<br />
Religious training................................................................................. 85<br />
Separating siblings............................................................................... 91<br />
Gender relations................................................................................... 95<br />
Contact with parents............................................................................ 99<br />
Fear, loneliness, and emotional neglect............................................. 109<br />
Despair ................................................................................................. 117<br />
Hiding the truth.................................................................................... 119<br />
Classroom experience.......................................................................... 121<br />
Regimentation...................................................................................... 129<br />
Integration into public schools........................................................... 131<br />
Truancy................................................................................................. 133<br />
Discipline.............................................................................................. 139