![]() She remembers a metal staircase somewhere on campus, and a big white barn with lots of windows. She remembers the big cafeteria at meal times, full of Native children from different bands. She recalls seeing row after row of beds, having her long hair chopped short and wearing a black and white school uniform with ugly white and brown shoes. “I guess it’s a good thing I can’t remember,” Sampson said. ![]() When Sampson was about 10, she, too, went to the Kamloops Indian Residential School, roughly 35 miles from her home in Chase, British Columbia. Matilda Sampson remembers her grandmother telling stories about hiding her kids in the cellar so they wouldn’t be taken away to the Indian boarding school.Įventually, the children had to go anyway.
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