Benny Pratt, along with a couple of hundred other claimants from Gordon, has settled out of court. The administrator of the school, William Starr, has already been found guilty and was imprisoned. But Faron Nippi, another Gordon school graduate I spoke with, is pursuing an individual litigation. He is twenty-seven and one of twelve children, who were all abused. Faron is haunted by what happened and obsessed by his lawsuit which has been going on over four years.
All fingers seem to be pointing in their direction.
It has donated 350 million Canadian dollars to set up a foundation, run by indigenous people themselves, to address the legacy of the schools. Regina But a number of church dioceses are so strapped trying to settle lawsuits and paying lawyers that they are threatened with bankruptcy. I visited one church, St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Regina. Links to more Americas stories are at the foot of the page.