“Unraveling the Secrets of ‘Traditions of a Mutt’: What Your Dog’s Mixed Breed Can Teach You About Love and Loyalty”
“I was fast, I was so fast,” Lottie said. These men claimed they were only there to help, to take them to school, to take care of them. Aunt Lottie said they were there to take them to the orphanage. Even she, the first time she told me this story back in 2013, didn’t want to say the words “residential school.” This attempted snatching repeated through the years and, eventually, only Lottie was left. The cabin was in shambles. She spent a year completely alone. Some kids had died of disease, some had been caught by the men in the cars, and others had already made their way into town to live with family. The last horse somehow got out and ran away. That was it. On her eighteenth birthday, unceremoniously, she decided to make the trek into Merritt. This child of the woods joined the rest of the family at the farms in the valley. The cabin would not be used again.
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