What a Maty Is

Residential school was a way to commit genicide, acta cultural genicide, andd in many cases, real genicide, against the indigenous populations here. These priests or pastors and nuns would come and take children from their indigenous families and bring them to these schools. And then the children would grow up there in really poor conditions, and often were exposed to horrific abuse. There was this sort of sense of being hush hush about being mate, not really expressing any pride, n trying to pass as white. It wasn't until recently, relatively, i would say, in the past 15 years or so, that my my ma really started to look into what exactly a maty

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