To date, we have interviewed five Survivors about their experiences of recreation while at residential and/or day school. We would like to interview an additional five to seven people. We are approaching former students of different cultural backgrounds from different regions who attended different schools in the NWT. We are also working to have a balance of women and men, and people of different ages. In addition to interviewing Survivors, we are gathering historical documents including photographs, reports, and correspondence from residential schools and day schools across the territory.

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The interviews and historical research will help us to understand how recreation was a part of the residential and day school experience, as well as the significance of recreation for former
students. We understand recreation to include a variety of creative, physical, social, and
intellectual activities including, but not limited to, music, the arts, sports, games, crafts, reading, and Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.

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