WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Margaret Swan’s voice becomes strained as she shares her experience at the Indian day school where she spent five years of her life.
“There was so much wrong. So many wrongs done in those schools,” said Swan, a member of the Lake Manitoba First Nation in Manitoba.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was one of many children forced to attend Dog Creek Day School, which was operated by the Roman Catholic Church as part of a partnership with the Canadian government.
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She says her experience at the school was filled with sexual, physical and emotional