(Warning: sensitive topics — youth drug and alcohol abuse, residential school syndrome, suicide, alcoholism, abuse)

  1. Research residential school syndrome. What supports are in place to assist survivors and their families, if any? How has this impacted Indigenous people in Canada as a whole?
  2. What is the government of Canada doing, if anything, to rectify the residential school experience and syndrome?
  3. What does Wusto identify as necessary for survival? (Hope.) Why do you think she believes in this?

Curriculum Connections: Indigenous Studies (Worldviews), History, Psychology, Civics and Careers, Health (Mental Health, Well-Being, Suicide Prevention)