and was marked by the same assimilation mission and abusive treatment of pupils). Her recollections match the patterns of thousands of other residential school students who have published accounts or given interviews of their time in residential schools across the continent (a similar system extended through the U.S. Intimidation, humiliation, abuse, and suffering marked Margaret-Olemaun’s schooling experience.
At eight years old, Olemaun Pokiak (her birth name) left her home on Banks Island, within the ancestral homelands of her Inuvialuit community (the Inuit people of the Northwestern Arctic in present-day Canada) and went to the residential Catholic school in Aklavik, on the mainland.
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