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Indian residential school

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a boarding school operated or subsidized by the federal government to accommodate students, especially Indians and Eskimos, attending classes at a considerable distance from their homes.

See: residential school

Quotations

1966

"I was at the Indian residential school [in Southern Manitoba in 1912] and I never had done any running."