Kamloops Indian Residential School in 1968.A member of the St’át’imc First Nation in B.C.’s Interior, Thut said over the years he has suffered from many nightmares about his time spent there.“There’s many documented stories.
Mine’s not hardly any different,” he told Global News.“We were hungry, we were afraid. It was a para-military existence. Everything had to be just so.
If it wasn’t you would be punished.”Thut said he experienced physical, mental and spiritual abuse at the school.“It took me 14 years after I left — I became an addict, an alcoholic — to finally face those events and get them out of my system.
My feelings today are for the ones who did not find the healing road.” ‘It’s blood-curdling’: Calls for accountability after.