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Residential Schools: Books

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A Knock on the Door: the essential history of residential schools by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Staff; Aimée Craft (Afterword by)
Call Number: Ebook
100 years of loss [kit] : the residential school system in Canada
Call Number: E 96.5 A15 2011 (CURRICULUM)
This educational kit is for educators in helping to raise awareness and teaching about the history and legacy of residential schools in Canada.
Full circle : the Aboriginal Healing Foundation & the unfinished work of hope, healing & reconciliation by Wayne K. Spear
Call Number: Ebook
Addressing the Legacy of Residential Schools by Shauna Troniak ; Social Affairs Division ; Parliamentary Information and Research Service
Call Number: Ebook
Pathways of Reconciliation:Indigenous and settler approaches to implementing the TRC's calls to action by Aimée Craft (Editor); Paulette Regan (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook
Arts of Engagement: Taking aesthetic action in and beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by Dylan Robinson (Editor); Keavy Martin (Editor)
Call Number: Ebook & E 98 A73 A78 2016
The circle game : shadows and substance in the Indian residential school experience in Canada by Roland Chrisjohn; Michael Maraun; Sherri R. Young
Call Number: E 96.5 C57 2006
Aboriginal people, resilience and the residential school legacy by Madeleine Dion Stout ; Gregory Kipling
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 S86 2003
The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People : Education, oppression, and emancipation by Bernard Schissel; Terry Wotherspoon
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.2 S34 2003
Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Volume One: Summary: honouring the truth, reconciling for the future by Truth and Reconcilation Commission of Canada Staff
Call Number: E 96.5 T782 2015
From truth to reconciliation : transforming the legacy of residential schools by Marlene Brant Castellano, Linda Archibald, Mike DeGagné
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 C38 2008
Magic Weapons: Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school by Sam McKegney
Call Number: Ebook
Moving beyond : understanding the impacts of residential school
Call Number: E 96.5 S76 2007
Remembering will have to do : the life and times of Louise (Trottier) Moine by Louise Moine
Call Number: E 99 M47 M63 2013
Restoring Dignity : responding to child abuse in Canadian institutions by Law Commission of Canada (Contribution by)
Call Number: Ebook & HV 6626.54 C3 L38 200
Playing the Race Card: exposing white power and privilege by George J. Sefa Dei; Leeno Luke Karumanchery; Nisha Karumanchery-Luik
Call Number: E 184 A1 D293 2004
The Sleeping Giant Awakens: genocide, Indian residential schools, and the challenge of conciliation by David B. MacDonald
Call Number: Ebook & E 92 M33 2019
Teachers, Students and Pedagogy: selected readings and documents in the history of Canadian education by Douglas O. Baldwin (Editor)
Call Number: LA 411 T42 2008
This benevolent experiment : Indigenous boarding schools, genocide, and redress in Canada and the United States by Andrew Woolford
Call Number: E 96 W64 2015

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Featured books

Amongst God's Own: the enduring legacy of St. Mary's Mission by Terry Glavin; St. Mary's Indian Residential School Staff (Contribution by)
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.6 S16 G52 2002
Coqualeetza : Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum : no backward step by Dorothy Matheson McIvor
Call Number: E 96.65 B7 M35 2001 (Heritage)
Written by former student Dorothy Matheson McIvor.
I remind until I fall : an examination of space, memory and experience at the Coqualeetza Residential School and Indian hospital by Jody Woods
Call Number: E 96.6 C6 W66 1998
Shi-Shi-Etko by Nicola Campbell; Kim LaFave (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ 7 C35 S55 2005 (CURRICULUM)
"Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home."
Shin-Chi's Canoe by Nicola I. Campbell; Kim Lafave (Illustrator)
Call Number: PZ 7 C35 S556 2008 (CURRICULUM)
"When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do."
They Called Me Number One: secrets and survival at an Indian residential school by Bev Sellars
Call Number: E 96.6 S154 S44 2013
St. Michael's Residential School : lament and legacy by Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.6 A44 D97 2021
Project of heart : illuminating the hidden history of Indian residential schools in BC by Nancy Knickerbocker
Call Number: Ebook
Resistance and Renewal: surviving the Indian residential school by Celia Haig-Brown
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 H35 1988
They came for the children: Canada, Aboriginal peoples, and residential schools. by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 T54 2012
Métis history and experience and residential schools in Canada by Larry N. Chartrand, Tricia E. Logan, Judy D. Daniels
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 C54 2006
Stolen from Our Embrace: the abduction of First Nations children and the restoration of aboriginal communities by Suzanne Fournier; Ernie Crey; David Neel (Photographer)
Call Number: E 78 C2 F69 1997
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan; Foreword by Taiaiake Alfred
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 R44 2010
Residential schools : with the words and images of survivors by Larry Loyie
Call Number: E 96.5 L69 2014
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools by J. R. Miller
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 M55 1996
Truth and indignation : Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian residential schools by Ronald Niezen
Call Number: E 96.5 N53 2017
Shingwauk Narratives: Sharing Residential School History by Jenna Lemay
Call Number: E-book

Featured books

Did You See Us?: reunion, remembrance, and reclamation at an urban Indian residential school by Andrew Woolford (Editor); Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School
Call Number: E 96.6 A87 D53 2021
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell by Arthur Bear Chief
Call Number: Ebook
From Bear Rock Mountain: the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor by Antoine Bear Rock Mountain
Call Number: Ebook
Spirit of the Grassroots People: seeking justice for indigenous survivors of Canada's colonial education system by Raymond Mason; Jackson Pind (Editor); Theodore Michael Christou (Editor)
Call Number: E 99 C6 M36 2020
Fatty legs : a true story by Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton ; artwork by Liz Amini-Holmes
Call Number: Ebook
The Education of Augie Merasty: a residential school memoir by Joseph Auguste (Augie) Merasty; David Carpenter
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 M47 2017
Broken circle : the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir by Theodore Fontaine
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 F66 2010
Behind Closed Doors: stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Jack Agnes (Editor)
Call Number: E 96.6 K34 B45 2006
Goodbye Buffalo Bay by Larry Loyie; Constance Brissenden (As told to)
Call Number: PS 8573 O979 G66 2008
Finding My Talk: how fourteen Native women reclaimed their lives after residential school by Agnes Grant; Foreword by Marlene Starr
Call Number: E 96.5 G718 2004
My heart shook like a drum : what I learned at the Indian Mission schools, Northwest Territories by Blondin-Perrin, Alice
Call Number: E 99 T56 B58 2009
In their own words : Manitoba's native residential schools remembered by Barbara A. Dalseg
Call Number: E 96.65 M3 D35 2003
My Name Is Shield Woman: a hard road to healing, vision, and leadership by Ruth Scalp Lock; Jim Pritchard
Call Number: E 99 S54 L63 2014
On the Goose: a Labrador Métis woman remembers by Josie Penny
Call Number: Ebook & FC 109.1 P45 A3 2014
Speaking my truth : reflections on reconciliation & residential school by Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Call Number: E 96.5 S64 2012
We were so far away : the Inuit experience of residential schools by Legacy of Hope Foundation
Call Number: E 96.5 W47 2010
Staff perspectives of the Aboriginal residential school experience : a study of four Presbyterian schools, 1888-1923 by Denise Hildebrand
Call Number: E 96.65 M3 H55 2003
Stories of healing from native Indian residential school abuse by Margaret Feehan
Call Number: Ebook & E 96.5 F44 1996
Up Ghost River : a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history by Edmund Metatawabin; Alexandra Shimo
Call Number: E 99 C88 M483 2014

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