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I felt something close to shame when I thought of my Great Aunt. If my white face was in the cabin, would I have been spared? Or would I have been thrown into a residential school with the others? As I sat with what was supposed to be my community in that park in Falkland, I wondered: Did they think I was a tagalong?
But at the same time, I also wondered why I let my whiteness get me down when it had also granted me comforts. Comforts that the rest of my family before me was not given.
Later, Aunt Lottie told us a tale of how she’d killed a grizzly bear that was taunting them. It was so large and hard to kill that the story is now recounted in one of the museums in Vancouver. She talked of losing her pigs one winter and finding them in the spring, living under the wood pile. She told stories of a kind native woman who would check up on her and the kids. This native taught them of medicinal plants and helped saved one of the boys’ lives once when he was suffering from a lung infection.
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