Residential day school survivors who lost language and culture seek redress

Strappings, beatings with a pointed stick and orders to stand in the classroom corner for speaking her own language were among "horrific" measures that erased Darlene Bulpit's ability to pass along her First Nations heritage to her two children and three grandchildren.

The 66-year-old from the Shishalh Indian band, on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, was allowed to go home at night and grins when she recalls learning to hunt with her brothers and bringing home "the prize."

Each morning she trudged back to school with dread.

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