Nuttah & Kitchi: National Truth and Reconciliation Day Activity Book

“Join Nuttah and Kitchi as they honour and remember the tens of thousands of residential school survivors and the children who did not survive the residential schools”. ~Excerpt from Strong Nations website

No Time to Say Goodbye

“No Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people. These unforgettable children are taken by government agents from Tsartlip Day School to live at Kuper Island Residential School. The five are isolated on the small […]

Nishga

“NISHGA explores those complications and is invested in understanding how the colonial violence originating at the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School impacted his grandparents’ generation, then his father’s generation, and ultimately his own. The project is rooted in a desire to illuminate the realities of intergenerational survivors of residential school, but sheds light on Indigenous experiences that […]

My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime in Hell

“This book depicts the punishment, cruelty, abuse, and injustice that he endured at Old Sun Residential School and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story at an examination for discovery in connection with a lawsuit brought against the federal government. Late in life, he returned to Gleichen, Alberta on the Siksika […]

Muinji’j Asks Why: The Story of the Mi’kmaq and the Shubenacadie Residential School

“A poignant, honest, and necessary book featuring brilliant artwork from Mi’kmaw artist Zeta Paul and words inspired by Muinji’j MacEachern’s true story, Muinji’j Asks Why will inspire conversation, understanding, and allyship for readers of all ages”. ~excerpt from Good Reads website

Moving beyond: Understanding the impacts of residential school

“The residential school system in Canada continues to have a great impact on Aboriginal people. This book takes a brief look at the history but the focus is on the intergenerational impacts that exist today from the residential school system. These impacts affect learning, education, and family relations. This book highlights positive approaches and paths […]

Making a Whole Person: Traditional Inuit Education

“Inhabit Education Books is proud to introduce Qinuisaarniq (“resiliency”), a program created to educate Nunavummiut about the history and impacts of residential schools, policies of assimilation, and other colonial acts that affected the Canadian Arctic”. ~Excerpt from Strong Nations website

Magic Weapons

“The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita […]

Life in the City of Dirty Water

For much of his life, Clayton Thomas-Muller’s very existence has been scrutinized and vilified. As a child, he endured the intergenerational trauma that resulted from his family attending residential school. Growing up Cree in downtown Winnipeg, Canada, Clayton faced systemic racism and violence in school and on the streets, which led him to use his […]

Legacy: Trauma, Story, and Indigenous Healing

“Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions than other North Americans. According to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, these are a result of intergenerational trauma: the unresolved terror, anger, fear, and grief created in Indigenous communities by the painful experiences of colonialism, passed down from generation to generation. […]