Anishinaabe elder fights to rid himself of name imposed in forced baptism 75 years ago

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WARNING: This story contains details of experiences at residential schools.

Ejinagosi Kistabish still remembers clinging to the side of a taxi as he watched his parents drive away from Saint-Marc-de-Figuery residential school in Amos, Que. after they showed up for a visit.

Kistabish, now 75, says he still has “to cope with that scene” — the snowfall, the November chill, his tears and seven-year-old hands gripping the moving car, begging his parents to take him with them.

“They dragged me for a while and I finally fell on the ground,” said Kistabish.

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“Then I started to cry again …. The director of the school,

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