Survivor remembers excitement of going to residential school – until he arrived

October 3, 2023

Norman Kistabish says he remembers when he was seven years old, he wanted to follow his brother to the Saint-Marc-de-Figuery Indian Residential School. The excitement of joining his sibling quickly vanished when he saw and experienced abuse in the school. “The day I arrived I was hungry. I was so hungry. At supper time I ate…