isidore and three of his brothers with _ here.ith students - here. isidore and three of his brothers with students in - here. isidore and three of his brothers with students in the j brothers with students in the late 1970s. he remembers strict rules and harsh punishment. around 150,000 indigenous children were sent to schools, cutting them off from their family tradition and language. it was a government programme but often run by the church. cultural genocide is what an official commission called it in 2015. official commission called it in 20 15. what official commission called it in 2015. what happened when you speak your language he had? i was hit. i was hit like everyone else who spoke the language here. we were beaten. we were called names. bad names, dirty little savages. b, names, dirty little savages. a number of unmarked graves were found before the recent discoveries. stories of such graves were common among the students. ,., ., ., , ., students. the son of a survivor told me that — students. the son of a survivor told

isidore and three of his brothers were students in the late 1970s.a government programme but often run by the church. "cultural genocide" is what an official commission called it in 2015. what happened when you spoke your language here? i got hit, i got hit like everybody else that spoke the language here. we got beaten, you know? we got called names, you know? bad names — "dirty little savage". a number of unmarked graves were found at muscowequan before the recent discoveries. stories of such graves were common among the students. the son of a survivor, he told me that his dad buried a kid over there just over those hills. a child from the school? a child from the school. he buried a child over there. the findings from searches at residential schools have renewed calls for justice and open old wounds. and opened old wounds. in the northern city of prince albert, survivors are reliving the trauma, talking about it openly like never before. at least we know now what happened to the students that did not return to school. the ones that did not return