Freddy Taylor and Centre Taylor

residential school: His powerful works are a testament to the pain and suffering he endured while a "student" at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school near Brantford, the site today of the Woodland Cultural Centre, according to NOW Magazine. Taylor was only six when a federal Indian agent enticed him into his truck with an offer of food and kidnapped him from his parents and community. There, at the Whetung Ojibwa Gallery, where some of the finest examples of aboriginal art can be viewed and purchased, I met First Nations artist Freddy Taylor. He didn't even have a chance to say goodbye. He told me of his experiences at the residential school. "They gave me the number 39, and that was my identity for the next 10 years," he says. "I was beaten if I used my name or spoke of my parents or cried."Like so many others, Taylor was abused and fed a minimal diet that had him and others sneaking out to the town dump to scrounge for food. "All I remember is that I was hungry all the time," he says. It was 1951. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.