Sharon Whonnock’s first memory is being transferred to the Nanaimo Indian hospital where she says she spent nearly a decade tied to a bed for almost 24 hours a day while being treated for tuberculosis.

The remaining childhood memories for the Kwakwaka’wakw grandmother of what happened to her at the second biggest Indian hospital in Canada are vivid, and she says they haunt her still.

Through the glass partition between beds, she says she could see other children also being tied and untied. 

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