Canada's Residential School System

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Across
  1. 5. Assimilate through English or French only
  2. 6. Run away, often caught and severely punished
  3. 11. Forbidden without permission; escape punished
  4. 12. Dread of punishment or discovery
  5. 13. Harsh enforcement of silence and order
  6. 15. Nun who taught or disciplined
  7. 16. Cut off from family, land, and language
  8. 17. Rare supervised area, often institutional
  9. 18. Student forced from their family
  10. 20. Intergenerational trauma and buried memories
  11. 21. Empty hallways after children died or were silenced
Down
  1. 1. Common punishment for speaking one's language
  2. 2. Forced removal from home by authorities
  3. 3. Enforced voicelessness; the national refusal to listen
  4. 4. Nighttime, when fear and abuse often occurred
  5. 7. Strict control over daily life
  6. 8. Unheated dormitories and inadequate clothing
  7. 9. Locked room for isolation or punishment
  8. 10. What was taken from Indigenous children
  9. 14. The residential school itself
  10. 19. Survivors reclaiming truth decades later