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    • Kamloops residential school

    Once a welcome shelter, the house where Ignace’s aunt and uncle let him stay has fallen into ruin (Ron Ignace)

    I ran away from the Kamloops Residential School. This is where I hid.

    On his 16th birthday, Ron Ignace’s residential school allowed him to go into town unsupervised. He didn’t go back, instead hiding in his aunt and uncle’s house. ‘That was the best damn decision I ever made in my life.’

    The memorial outside St Paul’s cathedral in Saskatoon. (Tenille Campbell/ Sweet Moon Photography)

    What I told my child about the Kamloops graves—to honour the 215

    An Indigenous mother describes the exhaustion of hearing about residential school trauma, and her determination to share those stories with the next generation