Speaking my truth : reflections on reconciliation & residential school

By | 2012

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A knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

By | 2016

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Secwépemc people, land, and laws = Yerí7 re Stsqʼeyʼs-kucw

By Ignace, Marianne, author | 2017

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From Bear Rock Mountain : the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor

By Mountain, Antoine, 1949- author | 2019

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"In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school--and his path to healing. In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school--run by the Roman Catholic Church in collusion with the Government of Canada--three hundred kilometres away. Over the next twelve years, the three residential schools Mountain was forced to attend systematically worked to erase his language and culture, the very roots of his identity. While reconnecting to that which had been taken from him, he had a disturbing and painful revelation of the bitter depths of colonialism and its legacy of cultural genocide. Canada has its own holocaust, Mountain argues. As a celebrated artist and social activist today, Mountain shares this moving, personal story of healing and the reclamation of his Dene identity."-- Provided by publisher.

I lost my talk

By Joe, Rita, 1932-2007, author | 2019

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Phyllis's orange shirt

By Webstad, Phyllis, author | 2019

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Five little Indians

By Good, Michelle, author | 2020

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Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them. The paths of the five friends cross and crisscross over the decades as they struggle to overcome, or at least forget, the trauma they endured during their years at the Mission. With compassion and insight, Five Little Indians chronicles the desperate quest of these residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and, ultimately, find a way forward.

Plants, people, and places : the roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in indigenous peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond

By | 2020

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Ispík kákí péyakoyak = When we were alone

By Robertson, David, 1977- author | 2020

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Hunter with harpoon

By Markoosie, author. | 2020

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"Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a perilous hunt for a wounded polar bear. In this astonishing tale of a people struggling for survival in a brutal environment, Patsauq describes a life in the Canadian Arctic as one that is reliant on cooperation and vigilance. In collaboration with the author, Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mahieu return to the original Inuktitut text to provide English readers with a more accurate translation. With a preface by Patsauq, an introduction from the translators, and an afterword by throat singer and filmmaker Evie Mark, this edition offers a fresh and contextualized interpretation of a cultural milestone. Whether revisiting this classic or discovering it for the first time, readers will find in Hunter with Harpoon a sophisticated coming-of-age tale illustrating a way of life not as it appeared to southerners, but as it has survived in the memory of the Inuit themselves."-- Provided by publisher.

Spirit of the grassroots people : seeking justice for Indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial education system

By Mason, Raymond, 1946- author | 2020

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"Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an organization that played a key role in the development of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read, Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles to find meaning in life after trauma and abuse. Mason details the work that he and his colleagues did over many years to gain recognition and compensation for their suffering. Drawing from Indigenous oral traditions as well as Western historiography, the work applies the concept of two-eyed seeing to the histories of colonialism and education in Canada. The memoir is supplemented by a final chapter in which Theodore Michael Christou and Jackson Pind put Mason's story into a historical and educational context. An essential key to understanding the legacy of Indian residential and day schools, this text is both a documentation of history and a deeply personal story of a human experience."-- Provided by publisher.

Aki-wayn-zih : a person as worthy as the Earth

By Baxter, Eli, author. | 2021

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"Members of Eli Baxter's generation are the last of the hunting and gathering societies living on Turtle Island. They are also among the last fluent speakers of the Anishinaabay language known as Anishinaabaymowin. Aki-wayn-zih is a story about the land and its spiritual relationship with the Anishinaabayg, from the beginning of their life on Miss-koh-tay-sih Minis (Turtle Island) to the present day. Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact, his childhood memories of trapping, hunting, and fishing with his family on traditional lands in Treaty 9 territory, and his personal experience surviving the residential school system. Examining how Anishinaabay Kih-kayn-daa-soh-win (knowledge) is an elemental concept embedded in the Anishinaabay language, Aki-wayn-zih explores history, science, math, education, philosophy, law, and spiritual teachings, outlining the cultural significance of language to Anishinaabay identity. Recounting traditional Ojibway legends in their original language, fables in which moral virtues double as survival techniques, and detailed guidelines for expertly trapping or ensnaring animals, Baxter reveals how the residential school system shaped him as an individual, transformed his family, and forever disrupted his reserve community and those like it. Through spiritual teachings, historical accounts, and autobiographical anecdotes, Aki-wayn-zih offers a new form of storytelling from the Anishinaabay point of view."-- Provided by publisher.

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Speaking my truth : reflections on reconciliation & residential school

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A knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

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When we were alone

By Robertson, David, 1977- author | 2016

Stolen words

By Florence, Melanie, author | 2017

Secwépemc people, land, and laws = Yerí7 re Stsqʼeyʼs-kucw

By Ignace, Marianne, author | 2017

From Bear Rock Mountain : the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor

By Mountain, Antoine, 1949- author | 2019

I lost my talk

By Joe, Rita, 1932-2007, author | 2019

Phyllis's orange shirt

By Webstad, Phyllis, author | 2019

Five little Indians

By Good, Michelle, author | 2020

Plants, people, and places : the roles of ethnobotany and ethnoecology in indigenous peoples' land rights in Canada and beyond

By | 2020

Ispík kákí péyakoyak = When we were alone

By Robertson, David, 1977- author | 2020

Hunter with harpoon

By Markoosie, author. | 2020

Spirit of the grassroots people : seeking justice for Indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial education system

By Mason, Raymond, 1946- author | 2020

Aki-wayn-zih : a person as worthy as the Earth

By Baxter, Eli, author. | 2021