As a young boy Jack Kruger watched a classmate have his teeth gouged at and broken with a chisel four times by a student dentist.

Kruger, along with classmates at the Kamloops Indian Residential School, underwent numerous dental procedures including drilling for cavities and tooth extraction all without anaesthesia so the dentists in training could finish their practicum.

91裸聊视频淲e were smart kids, as smart as the little ones here,91裸聊视频� he said pointing to children gathered amongst the crowd for the unveiling ceremony for the new Syilx Indian Residential School monument on the Penticton Indian Band. 91裸聊视频淲e looked at each other91裸聊视频檚 teeth and we knew that we didn91裸聊视频檛 have any cavities.91裸聊视频�

On other days at the school, he was jabbed with giant needles and injected with unknown substances. Sometimes someone would pass out and fall to the ground following the injection. The child had no memory of falling to the floor or what happened. Kruger said decades later he still doesn91裸聊视频檛 know what was injected into him.

91裸聊视频淲e were guinea pigs,91裸聊视频� he said with a tone of anger in his voice.

Kruger, a member of the Syilx Indian Residential School Committee, shared his experiences in front of a crowd of more than 150 at the unveiling of the Okanagan Nation Alliance91裸聊视频檚 residential school monument. Created by artist Virgil 91裸聊视频楽moker91裸聊视频� Marchand, the monument depicts two parents greeting their children.

The monument, dedicated to all those suffered at residential schools especially those that didn91裸聊视频檛 return, is located next to the hatchery on Penticton Indian Band land. The location is significant as it91裸聊视频檚 where the train and cattle trucks came to take the children away.

Kruger91裸聊视频檚 voice filled with emotion as he told those gathered, he is a broken man for his experiences at the residential school. He struggles to survive. His marriage and children have suffered as he91裸聊视频檚 worked to move forward from the atrocities done to him and children he knew growing up.

91裸聊视频淚n 100 years they destroyed us in what they call residential schools. We were traumatized the day we went to that train station. Kids were put in trucks like sardines, so tight they couldn91裸聊视频檛 sit down. If they had to go to the bathroom they peed themselves.91裸聊视频�

Eric Mitchell, fellow Syilx Indian Residential School Committee member and survivor shared similar memories. He described small children boarding trains for the first time, crying, wondering what they91裸聊视频檇 done wrong to be sent away. He noted the torture the families at home suffered while they were away at school for 10 months.

91裸聊视频淎unties, mom and grandma91裸聊视频檚 know what was going on there. They have to go home and they cry and they wait and they was for them to come home,91裸聊视频� he said.

Marchand was selected through a request for proposals by the committee made up of members from all seven Okanagan National Alliance communities. He too attended residential school.

91裸聊视频淎t six years old I was taken from grandma,91裸聊视频� he said.

91裸聊视频淚 couldn91裸聊视频檛 understand why I was taken from someone I loved.91裸聊视频�

The Colville Confederated Tribes member ran away five times from St. Mary91裸聊视频檚 Mission Boarding School in Omak, Wash. before finally being kicked out in Grade 9.

91裸聊视频淚 couldn91裸聊视频檛 understand why I had so much anger and bitterness,91裸聊视频� he said.

Over the years through talking about his experiences with other men and creating art he found ways to move past the horror he lived.

Marchand said he wanted to do the sculpture tilted Bringing Our Children Home for several years.

The sculpture91裸聊视频檚 aim is to honour the many ways in which children who were torn away from the Indigenous communities are healing and moving forward.

91裸聊视频淚 thought about all the families that lost children,91裸聊视频� he said in a tear-filled voice just before the unveiling sharing that he too had recently lost a child.

Grand Chief Phillip Stewart touched on the strength and resilience of Indigenous people who fought and defied the cultural genocide being enacted on them for more than a century.

Indigenous children were forced from their families and put in the residential school system from the 1890s until the last school closed in Saskatchewan in 1996.

91裸聊视频淲e know in our hearts we owe a debt of gratitude to the people that didn91裸聊视频檛 surrender, didn91裸聊视频檛 give up our language.91裸聊视频�