“I was always called ‘the bastard child,’” said Apetagon. Looking back, the slurs he says were hurled at him and his sister hinted at the source of the family’s rage.
“[An aunt] called me and my brother ‘dirty little Frenchmen,’” said Apetagon’s older sister, Camille.
Randal said others called him “Pahkwayis,” meaning “French” and “Catholic” in the local Cree dialect, Ininimowin.
from their own people: