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

A knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada / Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ; foreword by Phil Fontaine.

Summary:

Gathers material from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports to present the essential history and legacy of residential schools and inform the journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked upon.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0887557856 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780887557859 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xx, 274 pages : illustrations, map
  • Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Edited & abridged."
A significant section of the book is from "What we have learned: principles of truth and reconciliation" (Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada).
Published in collaboration with the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 17.95
Subject: Native peoples > Canada > Residential schools.
Native peoples > Canada > History.
Native peoples > Canada > Social conditions.
Native peoples > Canada > Government relations.
Truth commissions > Canada.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Lakeshore Branch 971.00497 Tru 31681020005823 NONFICPBK Available -

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada was established in 2008 and led by the Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair (Chair), Dr. Marie Wilson, and Chief Wilson Littlechild.
 
Phil Fontaine is a Survivor, TRC honorary witness, and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations.      
 
Aimée Craft is the Director of Research at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and an associate professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty.


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