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By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY \u2013 “You leave your home, you leave your language, you leave your tipi, you leave everything, you leave your drums, you leave everything, you go and live our way.” Fort William First Nation Elder Elizabeth Peltier is a survivor of the Saint Joseph’s residential school. She spoke about her experience at an Indigenous Survivors Day ceremony in the city on Monday. She believes she was voluntarily sent to school by her parents, not taken by the government like many others. “They thought they were doing a good thing, you know, that’s what the government wanted,” she said. \u201cI denied what happened to me. I’m 86. I just turned 86. I denied what happened to me in the residential school. I… <\/p>\n

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By Clint Fleury, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, TBnewswatch.com THUNDER BAY \u2013 “You leave your home, you leave your language, you leave your tipi, you leave everything, you leave your drums, you leave everything, you go and live our way.” Fort William First Nation Elder Elizabeth Peltier is a survivor of the Saint Joseph’s residential school. She spoke about her experience at an Indigenous Survivors Day ceremony in the city on Monday. She believes she was voluntarily sent to school by her parents, not taken by the government like many others. “They thought they were doing a good thing, you know, that’s what the government wanted,” she said. \u201cI denied what happened to me. I’m 86. I just turned 86. I denied what happened to me in the residential school. I... <\/p>\n

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