I'm going to say that was me. When it comes to instances of intimate intergenerational violence, I am a 53-year-old woman who lives in Yellowknife. I attended a residential school and there are many younger than I who have attended residential school. My mother attended the same residential school I went to.
When I was at Akaitcho Hall, there was a supervisor who had also been there when my mother had been at that same school. So the intergenerational trauma I felt is my mother's anger and not being able to articulate why she was angry [Technical difficulty—Editor], which led to her dying from three different cancers because she did not trust white doctors. She did not trust men.
In turn, very vulgar language was directed towards me and my brother. I tried my damnedest to make sure that was not directed to my children and I think I have succeeded with that. My grandchildren will not know what I grew up hearing. That's still just four generations and there are three to go before that never happens again, so the intergenerational trauma is real.