“They completely ignored who we were as individuals,” Theodore Fontaine, a survivor of the school, told CTV News. “The perception of who Indian people were. They were stupid. They were not real.”
It was the first urban residential high school in Manitoba and brought in thousands of children from other schools to serve as an all-Indigenous high school., about 150,000 children were sent to any of Canada’s 139 government-sponsored residential schools from the late 1800s until the last one closed in 1996.
The survivors note that life at Assiniboia improved compared to the conditions of their prior schools, but many aspects of life were still the same, as they were systematically forced to assimilate to a white world.
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