Residential School Survior Stories Where Are The Children Transcribers Note Speaker is not identified by the Interviewer on the recording. THE INTERVIEWER Tell me what school you went to. PERCY BALLANTYNE I went to Birtle Indian Residential School. I am not too sure exactly the years. Q. You dont remember how old you were A. I was just a young kid. Q. About six A. No. Actually, I was in my early teens thirteen. Q. Do you remember what your first day was like There were a lot of Dakota People there. A. Yes. My first day was like. Well, lets go back to that first morning when I woke up at Residential School. All Good Things The film is a love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. Mr. Durst was suspected but never. I will never forget that. I had just come from a place, my environment, where it was nice and safe with family around. The family unit is around. The mom is around. The dad is around. Brothers and sisters are around. 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Wow, where am I My first instinct was I want to get out of here. Watch My Dog`S Christmas Miracle Online here. I dont belong here. I dont belong here at all and its not the place for me. Watch Downriver Full Movie' title='Watch Downriver Full Movie' />I looked around and theres all these kids around me. The first thing I noticed was that kid that looked at me straight in the eye. Wow. This kids spirit is not in the right place, this kids spirit, you know, because when you look at somebody straight in the eye you could tell. If you went to the jails or anything like that, if you look at the brothers and sisters out there in the eye you can tell their spirit is hurt. But its so sad at that age, at my age now when I think back, when I reverse, if I looked at you if youre a prisoner I could tell that your spirit is hurt. Back then, when I look back now looking at those children thats what really hurts me today, little kids, having the spirit of a prisoner. It stays with me. It never goes away. And that feeling I had that morning of wanting to cry, as Im sitting here it comes back, you know. I guess that tells me I have a lot more cleaning up to do. But Ive come a long ways, Ive come a long ways from when I was taken away from home. My background, as I indicated earlier, I come from a loving family. I had my Kookum, I had my Mishum and my uncles and my aunties, my mom, my dad, my sisters, my brothers. Thats the environment that I know. I come from the community of Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids to me at that time before we were disturbed from our little nest, our little safe nest there, I envisioned, I remember Grand Rapids as a nice calm lake, a nice calm lake, no wind blowing, not a ripple on the lake in the water, not even the leaves are moving. Everything is calm. Im describing my family. Thats the way it was, eh. Then one day somebody happened to throw a stone in the middle of the lake and created, bang, created that wave, that ripple, and we can still see the rippling effects today of that disturbance we had from Day One. Those were very terrifying moments when you see people coming to your place telling you that youre going to leave your family, pretty soon youre going to have to leave your family. Thats just the way I guess our future was written for us. Q. Do you think we were meant to go through all this A. I dont believe that anybody had to go through what we had to go through, but in a way too we say that God works in mysterious ways. No, what we went through was horrifying. We found the root of the problems that exist today in our contemporary society. I keep referring back to that nice calm lake and somebody threw a rock and started those rippling effects. Well today its still there. We see all kinds of social problems out there. Were not the only ones that were affected by that issue of Residential Schools. The whole worlds society is affected by it. Nobody is excluded from the mistakes that past governments made. In our way we have natural laws. I dont like to use the word Indian because were not from India. Were indigenous to this country where we are. I always tell the young people that it was God the Creator who put you here. Nobody else put you here. I dont mean to sound biased or racist or anything like that to tell the rest of society that Columbus put them here. God the Creator put you here and this is your land, this is your country. Whatever happened to them they have to try to find that forgiveness so we can begin a new day, begin a new walk in life. Q. Did you have a lot of friends in school A. I had a lot of friends. I made a lot of friends. Im easy to get along with. I make friends fast, but at the same time I had enemies too, eh. I have a lot of friends out there indicating. As a matter of fact, even though its watered down I learned the Ashinabe ph. I can speak it fluently because I grew up with the Ashinabe kids out there. I couldnt speak Cree. I grew up with the chiefs that are out there. I grew up with them. We used to run, like five thirty or six oclock in the morning to do our exercise and runs and that. So, yes, I have a lot of friends from school. But theres the other side to it, too, eh, what happened with administration if you ran into trouble with the administration. The administration had their own bullies, too, eh, so at the same time I had to fight for my survival out there. Im just a young boy from the north. Q. What was that likeA. Well, it was terrifying at first when youre surrounded by a bunch of strangers out there and their purpose is to try to intimidate you. Im not easily intimidated by anybody so I always went for it. I went for it. I didnt care how big or how small, you know. If youre out there to pick on a young kid you gotta deal with me. They know about it, those people Im talking about. But it wasnt that we were bad. It was basically just survival, just trying to survive out there. I still have friends today from that era. We get along. We talk about it, you know, the bad times and the good times we had out there. Q. What was the food like A. Well, from being up north youre used to ducks, geese, traditional food, moose meat, muskrat, you name it. We were used to that. And then when you go down there you have to change. Everything changes. Even your diet changes. Everything can change. Your survival instincts change. The food itself, well, I had to get used to it. I had to get used to it. Q. What was the common food A. Porridge in the morning. Porridge in the morning, toast. I dont remember much about it. The only thing I remember about the Dining Room was the screams sometimes when you misbehave and that. Thats just where you got it, in the Dining Room. Q. In front of everybody A. In front of everybody. Yeah, thats in front of everybody. Yeah, you got it. It was very embarrassing and humiliating for some poor children out there. But so vivid in my mind is I never laughed at anybody. As a matter of fact when I heard those screams it got me angry. I wanted to go and protect those kids, eh. Its a natural instinct for you to protect. When that happened to my little brother I went nuts. I broke a law. Lets put it that way, just to back up my brother. Im just going a little bit ahead here, eh. I went to school with my brother. He passed away last year, not even a year ago. He passed on and I went to school with him out there. Natural Detox Program.