Gabrielle Scrimshaw recalls how her mother’s and her family’s experience with residential schools, much like many Indigenous people across Canada, has continued to plague the community through intergenerational trauma. These experiences have also led to the dire circumstances many Indigenous people live in today.
Source: Gabrielle Scrimshaw. “Canada’s Hidden History, My Mother and Me.” June 30, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/opinion/canadas-hidden-history-my-mother-and-me.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&smvar=intlcan