Mary Courchene, a student at the residential schools at Fort Alexander in Manitoba and Lebret in Saskatchewan, describes the alienation she felt when she returned home: “And I looked at my dad, I looked at my mom, I looked at my dad again. You know what? I hated them. I just absolutely hated my own parents. Not because I thought they abandoned me; I hated their brown faces. I hated them because they were Indians.”
