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Teaching the next generation – UM Today

by ahnationtalk on December 8, 2017207 Views

December 7, 2017 —

Victoria E. McIntosh never thought she’d end up in university, especially in the Faculty of Education. This was due in part to her experience in Residential Schools, where she struggled with the trauma of her experiences.

“When I was in [the Residential School], I saw some pretty horrid things that these so-called caregivers and mother figures and father figures, what they did to us to separate us and keep us fighting,” says McIntosh. “I went through that. Always having to fight.”

Being creative with visual arts from an early age helped McIntosh from the trauma of abuse at the school, and it’s an aspect of her life that she continues to hold very dear.

“I always felt that deep down inside there was a part that I needed to always protect, and nobody was going to go near that or destroy that,” she says.

Read More: http://news.umanitoba.ca/teaching-the-next-generation/

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