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- Oct 2023
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So after, seventy years later, I remember that was my number. So therefore you were called by that number. They didn’t use your name: “Eighteen, come here! Eighteen, go do this! Eighteen, it’s your turn to go do this.” So I wasn’t a person anymore, I was a number. I was like a prisoner. All of us were like prisoners with numbers.
Another method used by those in control to remove a child's identity and furthermore, a first step in preparing the child for reshaping their values, beliefs and behaviour.
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I never had a friend, a non-Native friend. I couldn’t invite anyone to come to our home, because we were just a totally different world.
At 9 years old, in 1954, I and my mother immigrated from Germany and settled in Regina . My first friend, who I met in public school and spent time in his home with his family, was an indigenous boy. Perhaps, my experience is not typical.
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What shame has been put upon our people has been our culture stolen from us. The language stolen from us.
So very true. Language and culture are correlated. You control/restrict/eliminate language in a society and you change the culture in that society. A practice that even today is not uncommon.
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