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Residential schools : the devastating impact on Canada's Indigenous Peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings and calls for action / by Florence, Melanie.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Native peoples; Native students;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Residential schools / by Hudak, Heather C.,1975-;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Discusses the history of residential schools where indigenous children were raised away from their families and communities, including why the government established them, how Indigenous children were treated, and the lasting impact on Indigenous cultures and traditions.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Canada's residential schools : the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.volume 1. The history. Part 1, Origins to 1939 ; The history. Part 2, 1939 to 2000 -- volume 2. The Inuit and northern experience -- volume 3. The Métis experience -- volume 4. Missing children and unmarked burials -- volume 5. The legacy -- volume 6. Reconciliation.This is the McGill-Queen<U+2019>s University Press edition of the six volumes of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The product of over six years of research, the Commission's final report outlines the history and legacy of Canada's residential schools, and charts a pathway towards reconciliation.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples; Native peoples;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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Sugar Falls : a residential school story / by Robertson, David,1977-; Henderson, Scott B.; Yaciuk, Donovan,1975-;
Tells the story of Native Canadian Betty Ross who was taken away to a residential school.LSC
Subjects: Ross, Betty (Elder from Cross Lake First Nation); Native peoples; Native students; Residential schools; First Nations students;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Indian school days / by Johnston, Basil H.,1929-;
Subjects: Johnston, Basil H., 1929-; Garnier Residential School.; Ojibwa Indians;
© 1988., Key Porter Books,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Stealing : a novel / by Verble, Margaret,author.;
"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's company. But malice lurks near their quiet bayou and Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of tragic, fatal crime"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Indigenous children; Cherokee; Residential schools;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Reflections from them days : a residential school memoir from Nunatsiavut / by Winters, Nellie,1938-; Oberndorfer, Erica.;
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Subjects: Winters, Nellie, 1938-; Native peoples; Inuit; Inuit children; Inuit;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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I am not a number / by Dupuis, Jenny Kay.; Kacer, Kathy,1954-; Newland, Gillian.;
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened and homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. A picture book based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.LSC
Subjects: Native peoples;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir / by Merasty, Joseph Auguste.; Carpenter, David,1941-;
The memoir of a man who endured terrible hardships as a child in a residential school in Canada.LSC
Subjects: Merasty, Joseph Auguste.; Native peoples; Native students;
© c2015., University of Regina Press,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Knowing : The Enduring Legacy of Residential Schools. by Talaga, Tanya.;
In 'The Knowing', Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga, one of Canadas top investigative journalists, retells the history of this country as only she can - through an Indigenous lens, by tracing the life of her great-great grandmother and family as they lived through this government- and Church-sanctioned genocide. Talaga is of Polish and Indigenous descent. Her great-grandmother was a residential school survivor, her great-grandfather was an Ojibwe trapper and labourer, and her grandmother is a member of Fort William First Nation. She lives in Toronto, ON.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: HISTORY / Canada / General; HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples of the Americas; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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