Barbara Nolan says she is grateful to have survived attempts by Canada’s Indian residential school system to take her language away from her.
Nolan was born and raised in South Bay on the Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory on Manitoulin Island. She didn’t know a word of English until she was sent to residential school in Spanish, Ont. when she was five years old. She spent four years in Spanish until she went back to Wikwemikong where she was bused to school.
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