http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/4338/0 en http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week I </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/8th_-_stella_photo_by_luca_argalia_cc2.0.jpg" alt="" title="Credit: Luca Argalia" width="450" height="299" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>I was 6 years old when I was taken away from my parents and grandparents in Ahousat BC and forced into a residential school. The Department of Indian Affairs came to our reserve every year in the 1950&rsquo;s, taking Native children away and placing them in residential schools to learn the White way of life.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441#comments By Stella August DTES Power of Women Group Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:04:17 +0000 isaac 7441 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca