Editor's Note: This article contains descriptions of abuse endured or witnessed by children at “Indian hospitals”, and Kuper Island Residential School that may be triggering. It mentions violence against children, including sexual, physical, mental and emotional abuse.

For seɫɫəmah, also known as Joan Morris, that comparison was all too real. She lived it.

Taken from her home at age 10, Morris was sent to a place where children went hungry and endured relentless punishments. Many who went to the residential school were never able to return to their homes.

She suffered physical and mental abuse, witnessed sexual assaults, and saw classmates murdered.

Forgiveness can seem impossible after years of neglect and cruelty, yet for some, it becomes a way to reclaim humanity.

Morris, a leǩʷəŋ

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