WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing.

A Mi’kmaw student says she was saddened and hurt to see racist stereotypes about Indigenous people included in her Nova Scotia Grade 10 English correspondence course, which also asked students to list the advantages and disadvantages of being placed in a residential school.

Malaika Joudry-Martel started the correspondence course — which was sent out by the province’s Education Department — in March and was slowly plugging away at it this week when her mother, shalan joudry, asked to take a look at it.

“I was scrolling through and some of the other language through