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Fred

In our cultural teaching, we understood that the only time you ever cut your hair was if your parent or grandparents passed away. And these stories come around from other friends of ours that did return home from residential schools. And that’s the thing they would share with them was, you have to cut your hair because your parents don’t want you anymore or your parents are actually dead now. So you have to cut your hair.

So there’s a lot of these things. They use this mental tactic to try to break you down because, and that’s what a lot of it was, just trying to break you from your way of being. And we struggle and fought saying we didn’t want to get our hair cut. We couldn’t understand why they wanted to cut our hair.