Historical Timeline – Shattering the Silence

Michelle Good [author of Five Little Indians]: ‘Imagine the terror of the children’ — ‘Non-Indigenous Canada, this is the time to raise your voices’ "When I was still quite little, my mother told me of her friend, Lily, a fellow inmate at the St. Barnabas Residential School in Onion Lake, Saskatchewan. This was not the story one would expect about school chums. No, this was the story of how a little girl, taken without consent from her home and community, hemorrhaged to death from tuberculosis while her little classmates stood by helpless." ... See MoreSee Less