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THUNDER BAY – As a child, Fred Thomas spent 10 years in the residential school system, ripped from his family and forced to abandon his culture and heritage.Today, 29 years after she died, the Lac Seul First Nation elder is still reeling from the impact of his time at residential school, a term he believes is used to soften the actualities of what went on behind closed doors.
“ for the dominant group to really understand the issue of how our First Nations were treated as children, and also all the missing children,” Thomas said. Fort William First Nation elder, Sheila DeCorte, said her mother, a residential school survivor, was so ashamed of her language that she refused to speak it in front of her own children – though she knew the language and did speak it with her siblings and cousins.“A lot of that true history was taken away from us and we weren’t allowed to share our true history.
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