was wetting the bed often and getting lashed. One day she was sent to the Iron box which is this low ceiling dark room where she died. Rebecca her older sister found out and she was devastated. Saul then sees Rebecca standing in an open field one day singing an old Ojibwe song where Saul sees her stab herself. The rest of the children join together singing the same song. This was just one of the devastating events Saul witnessed at St.Jerome's residential school.

I think that the discrimination that Saul had to face at St. Jerome's was not right. Saul and the rest of the Indigenous kids attending the school were treated very poorly mainly because of their culture and skin colour. According to www.indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca "The two primaryobjectives of the residential school system were to remove and isolate children from the influence of their homes, families, traditions, and cultures, and to assimilate them into the dominant culture."

These residential schools were not justified and personally, I think that residential school has to be apart of Canada's worst moments in history. These residential schools were very racist and abusive towards Indigenous children as more than 6000 children were to have died in these residential schools. I couldn't imagine being forced away from my family for years to live in an abusive school where I didn't understand the language. However, in Indian Horse, Saul already spoke fluent English which saved him some troubles.

Mohawk Institute Residential School

Recently, our English class was given the opportunity to visit the Mohawk Institute