Residential school day scholars are now able to submit claims for compensation under a recent legal settlement.
“Day scholars” are residential school survivors who attended the schools during the day, but were able to go home at night. They suffered the same destruction of language and culture as other students at residential schools, but were left out of the 2006 Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement and were not eligible for the settlement’s common experience payments — $10,000 for the first year of living at a residential school and $3,000 for every year after.
The day scholars settlement approved by the Federal Court last
