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ASSIGNNMENT 2: Q&A RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS
301216012 SARAHI HUERTA GALINDO
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Beverly Albrecht, I learned she is originally from Six Nations Cayuga Turtle Clan, a reserve in Ontario where 6 Iroquois nations live together: Mohawk, Tuscarora, Seneca, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, spanning over 46,500 acres and the largest reserve in all Canada in population, living as today 27,276 members. She had a open heart surgery at seven years and immediately attend to residential school, her mother attend to same institute which in consequence Albrecht did not know her mother language or the cultural traditions, her mother thought it will be good for her to attend residential school due to lack of financial and emotional support, finally she left the school at grade four level of education when the school shut down in 1970. She was identified with the number 66, on er first day she was scared, and the treatment was very bad. I chose her because she gave a lot of interesting information about her life in school and found enough information about the residential school.
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Mohawk Residential School was founded in 1828 by the Anglican Church located in Brantford, Ontario. At the beginning the school only have Indian boys but started accepting girls in 1834. It was until 1946 that the federal government took responsibility for the school and in 1970 closed their doors. In 1972, the school changed into a historical museum that displays First Nation’s art, nowadays is called Woodland Cultural Centre, its current purpose is to preserve and promote art, language, traditions and history of Indigenous people, provides tours, educational workshops, survivor guest speakers to public.
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Albrecht said that they have to wear a uniform and similar haircut to all other children had, also explains that they used to call “house moms” to the non-indigenous women that worked there, also explains that they used harsh chemicals in every chair hair to avoid lice, even though the kid
did not have a lice, is a protocol that must be done. They had a daily routine which consisted of waking up around 7 am, making bed in a military style, having to do chores before having breakfast, Beverly was assigned to clean the stairs with bleach and a tiny toothbrush. If a kid misbehaves during class, the “housing moms” would make the kid go outside the classroom, stand in a line that goes down the hall and make the kid stand straight as possible. Albrecht and one friend of hers were playing around the bunk bed, which was not allowed and then one teacher/mom found them and took them downstairs and put them in separate lockers and locked them inside. She was traumatized and now she is afraid to be in a room that has closet doors that are closed. Also, there were boxing matches, arranged by the moms and happened every Sunday, they were forced to fight and cheer up their mates. One day Albrecht was forced to fight her younger sister in one of these matches. The school was responsible for the death of 97 students, children that died from illness, injury and the ones that ran away and died elsewhere. 15000 students attended, students from 20 First Nation communities.
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Image 1. Retrieved from. https://prezi.com/qrjbnsgnqyiz/beverly-albrecht-residential-school-
survivor/
Image 2. Retrieved from. https://prezi.com/qrjbnsgnqyiz/beverly-albrecht-residential-school-
survivor/
REFERENCES
General Synod Archives, (2008). The Mohawk Institute - Brantford, ON. The Anglican Church of Canada. Retrieved from https://www.anglican.ca/tr/histories/mohawk-institute/ Six Nations of
the Grand River Development Corporation. (2020). History of Six Nations. The Design Thinking Agency. Retrieved from https://sndevcorp.ca/history-of-six-nations/ Wallenfeldt, J. (2020). The 6 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/list/25-decade-defining-
events-in-us-history We are the Children. (2013). Beverly Albrecht. Legacy of Hope Foundation. Retrieved from http://wherearethechildren.ca/en/watc_story/beverly-albrecht-2/ The images shown the uniform that kids used to wear and the military style of the haircut, there were a lot of discipline and strict rules, an any breach there were hard
punishment for kids. They worked and did not play as kids, just boxes matching. That Beverly states that moms wanted the girls angry at each other so girls could release angry due to strict rules of the school.
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Woodland Cultural Centre. (n/a). A brief history. Retrieved from https://woodlandculturalcentre.ca/about-us/Now