“I met students from Lebret when I was there, I spent a lot of time there, and now to know what they were experiencing that really hits home for me,” Shingoose said.We deliver the local news you need in these turbulent times on weekdays at 3 p.m.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc.
“It’s funny, but my memories of being there were that I felt more safe than I did at Muscowequan, but thinking back, that might just be because it was so horrible where I was, that I just wanted to be anywhere else,” she said. Shingoose said it is announcements like last week’s out of Saskatchewan that continue to show that the same abuse and mistreatment she experienced at a residential school was being experienced at residential schools across the country.“But people questioned our stories, and this is more clear evidence of what they did to us.
During last week’s announcement, Starr confirmed that additional work needs to be done to determine what each of the discovered anomalies near the former Lebret Indian Industrial School site represents, and said officials do not believe that all anomalies discovered are unmarked graves.