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Survivor shares her painful experience attending residential school
THE RIDGE — Linda Whitford wasn't allowed to speak her Cree language when she attended residential school as a child. She remembers being hit on the head whenever she tried to speak Cree. "You know, we got hit for no reason," Whitford said. "Sometimes I didn't even want to breathe when I went by a nun." Thanks to her grandmother, she was able to learn Cree again when she came home from residential school 11 years later. For Truth and Reconciliat…
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Survivor shares her painful experience attending residential school
THE RIDGE — Linda Whitford wasn't allowed to speak her Cree language when she attended residential school as a child. She remembers being hit on the head whenever she tried to speak Cree. "You know, we got hit for no reason," Whitford said. "Sometimes I didn't even want to breathe when I went by a nun." Thanks to her grandmother, she was able to learn Cree again when she came home from residential school 11 years later. For Truth and Reconciliat…
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