Saskatchewan residential school survivors react to Pope Francis’s apology
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Bevann Fox was seven years old when she first attended residential school in Lebret, Sask. Hearing the Pope's apology made her revisit painful memories sketched into her mind.
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Bevann Fox remembers her face being rubbed into milk that she accidentally spilled on the floor when she was seven years old.
“You need to go the chapel, you need to pray for spilling that milk,” are the words Fox remembers hearing a nun telling her while she was a student at the Lebret Industrial School. “I was in fear (and) traumatized. That night, I was sent to see the priest. And you know what happened from there.”
Fox says that night, she was molested. It’s a painful memory that floods her eyes with tears as she recalls a painful childhood in the residential school.
As forms of punishment, Fox endured sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual abuses during her time at the residential school. At times, she was starved and left out of meals, and she was put into a locker as the school’s form of timeout.
It’s memories like these that are constant reminders of her past that she was too young to understand.
“I was only seven years old,” Fox said in a shaky voice.
When she heard Indigenous delegates from Canada were heading out to the Vatican to meet with the Pope, she decided to remove herself from social media. But the morning of April 1, Fox turned to her Twitter account and read the news of Pope Francis apologizing.
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