Powwow Summer
“Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl, she feels like she doesn’t belong and struggles with her identity. On her family’s nearby reserve, she learns more than she expects about the lives of Indigenous people, […]
Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket
“Carey takes the reader on a journey from the initial idea behind the Witness Blanket to the challenges in making it work to its completion. The story is told through the objects and the Survivors who donated them to the project. At every step in this important journey for children and adults alike, Carey is […]
On the Side of Angels
“Jose Kusugak had a typical Arctic childhood, growing up playing games, enjoying food caught by hunters, and watching his mother preparing skins. But he was one of the first generation of Inuit children who were taken from their homes and communities and sent to live in residential schools. In this moving and candid memoir, Jose […]
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 […]
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 […]