When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother’s garden, she begins to notice things about her grandmother that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long braided hair and wear beautifully coloured clothing? Why does she...
Residential schools
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
- Author:Van Camp, RichardSummary:
Two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a "flip-book" format, which offers the intended audiences two important perspectives in one package.
- Author:Regan, PauletteSummary:
"In 2008, Canada established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to mend the deep rifts between Aboriginal peoples and the settler society that created Canada's notorious residential school system. Unsettling the Settler Within argues...
- Author:Sellars, BevSummary:
Xat’sull Chief Bev Sellars spent her childhood in a church-run residential school whose aim it was to “civilize” Native children through Christian teachings, forced separation from family and culture, and discipline. In addition,...
- Author:Zeidel, SmokySummary:
It is the late 1800s, and a shameful time in American history. The U.S. Government has mandated native tribes send their young people to Indian schools where they are stripped of their native heritage by people they think of as The...
- Author:Bird-Wilson, LisaSummary:
This debut poetry collection from Lisa Bird-Wilson reflects on the legacy of the residential school system: the fragmentation of families and histories, with blows that resonate through the generations. Inspired by family and archival...
- Author:Kinew, WabSummary:
A moving father-son reconciliation told by a charismatic First Nations broadcaster, musician and activist. When his father was given a diagnosis of terminal cancer, Winnipeg broadcaster and musician Wab Kinew decided to spend a year...
- Author:Webstad, PhyllisSummary:
When Phyllis Webstad (nee Jack) turned six, she went to the residential school for the first time. On her first day at school, she wore a shiny orange shirt that her Granny had bought for her, but when she got to the school, it was...
- Author:Van Camp, Richard, Gray Smith, Monique, Gear, AlisonSummary:
"From award-winning authors Richard Van Camp and Monique Gray Smith come two honest and memorable middle-grade novellas on residential schools and reconciliation. The novellas will be bound together in a 'flip-book' format, which offers...
- Author:Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
- Author:Carpenter, David, Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
"This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from...
- Author:Fournier, SuzanneSummary:
The authors look at the abduction and re-settlement of Native American children by well-meaning but misguided authorities, during the cultural conflict that followed the arrival of Europeans in the New World. The children became the...
- Author:Blackstock, CindySummary:
Spirit Bear is off on another adventure! Follow him as he learns about traditional knowledge and Residential Schools from his Uncle Huckleberry and his friend, Lak'insxw, before heading to Algonquin territory, where children teach him...
- Author:Burns, Sarah FelixSummary:
The magical story of friendship between twenty-something Sylvia Hardy and Lydie Jim, an eighty-two year old Tlingit elder from the Yukon who met when the Sylvia agreed to be Lydie’s tutor.
- Author:Loyie, Oskiniko Larry, Spear, Wayne K., Brissenden, ConstanceSummary:
- Author:Dance, JenniferSummary:
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabe Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is...
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