How I Survived Podcast

In this episode, project co-leads Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin introduce listeners to How I Survived, a research project and now podcast about recreation at residential and day schools in the Canadian North. 

Rassi Nashalik was raised at an outpost camp near Pangniqtuuq (Pangnirtung). In 1964, when she was 10 years old, Rassi was taken from her family to attend residential school in Pangniqtuuq. She was also institutionalized at the Churchill Vocational Centre in Churchill, Manitoba.

Dave Poitras was born on a trapline near Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. Between the ages of four and eleven, Dave was institutionalized at Holy Angels, a Catholic residential school in Fort Chip.

Beatrice Bernhardt grew up on the land in a camp in the Kugluktuk area, in what is now Nunavut. When she was six years old, Beatrice was taken from her close-knit family by float plane to Inuuvik (Inuvik). She spent the next nine years institutionalized at Grollier Hall.

Ernie Bernhardt spent almost his entire childhood at residential school, from the age of ten months until he became an adult. He was institutionalized at Immaculate Conception Indian Residential School in Akłarvik (Aklavik), Akaitcho Hall in Sǫǫ̀mbak'è (Yellowknife), and Grandin College in Tthebacha (Fort Smith).

Agnes Kuptana was born in an iglu and raised on the land near Uluksaqtuuq (Uluhaktok), Northwest Territories. She was institutionalized at the Coppermine Tent Hostel in Kugluktuk, the Cambridge Bay Hostel, and Stringer Hall in Inuuvik (Inuvik). 

Sharon Firth were born and raised on a trapline near Akłarvik (Aklavik). She was institutionalized at Stringer Hall in Innuvik (Inuvik).