A Tetlit Gwich’in woman is suing the federal government, the Anglican Church, two residential school staff and two fellow students over sexual abuse she says she suffered there.

The woman remains anonymous in the court documents, filed last Monday in Yukon Supreme Court.

She lives in the Yukon now, but attended the Fleming Hall residential school in Fort McPherson, N.W.T., in the late 1950s.

She alleges she was sexually abused by a now-deceased night watchman at the school.

He used his position of authority to coerce her into participating in activities including sexual touching, masturbation and sexual assault, the document states.

Four male students also allegedly engaged in similar activities with her. Two, who used threats and violence to force her into performing sexual acts with the other two, have since died, the statement of claim says.

The identities of the two presumed to be alive are unknown.

The woman is also suing a female supervisor and a male superintendent at the school, who she says failed in their duties to protect her from harm.

The identities of these staff members are also unknown.

Because they were employees or agents of the Canadian government and the Anglican Church, these two bodies are included in the lawsuit.

The woman says she has suffered physical, mental, emotional and spiritual injuries, loss of employment and quality of life, pain and suffering as a result of what took place at Fleming Hall.

To this day, she struggles with severe emotional and psychiatric illnesses, loss of self-esteem, an inability to form healthy emotional relationships and alcohol and drug abuse, she says.

The woman seeks compensation for loss of earnings, as she hasn’t been able to hold down a job, and medical expenses.

A case management conference has been scheduled for May 20.

The Anglican Church did not respond to a request for comment before press time this afternoon.

On the church’s website, Fleming Hall is described as a 100-bed hostel for school-age children from Kindergarten to Grade 8. Students were mostly Gwich’in, and two-thirds were female.

Fleming Hall was named after the Arctic’s first Anglican bishop, Archibald Lang Fleming.

Across Canada, more than 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were removed from their homes and forced to attend residential schools, starting in the 1870s. The last school closed in 1996.

Funded by the federal government, the Catholic, Anglican, United and Presbyterian churches ran most of the schools. The goal was to assimilate aboriginal children and teach them Christianity and English or French.

According to the Legacy of Hope Foundation, a Canadian organization that raises awareness of residential schools, survivors began speaking out in the 1990s about abuse and neglect they suffered, including beatings, confinement, sexual abuse and malnourishment.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper formally apologized in 2008.

The federal government put together a $1.9-billion compensation package for “common experience” payments to anyone who lived at one of the schools – $10,000 for the first year, or part of a year, plus $3,000 for each year after.

It was possible to opt out of the payments and maintain the right to launch a separate lawsuit, but former students who didn’t opt out cannot sue the federal government or churches over the matter in the future.

The deadline for applying for the common experience payment was in September 2011.

The government’s plan also allowed for people who suffered sexual or serious physical abuse to receive an additional payment.