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Roxanne Stasyszyn, Yukon News : Saturday, September 15, 2012

WHITEHORSE – Malcolm Dawson remembers August as a time of dread, a time when the soap couldn’t wash the colour off his skin before he had to return to the Whitehorse Baptist Mission school.

“It was something like being in jail. I used to play hooky all the time because all I had in school was trouble. I used to wander around and hide in the alleys,” Dawson, now 70, said in an interview.

“I was just a little guy and they’d tell me I was good for nothing and wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

Dawson also remembers scrubbing himself vigorously with soap and water as a kid.

“I was trying to wash the brown off me,” he said.

But these memories are not enough for him to qualify for claims intended for former students who…