Truth and Reconciliation
Some important reads this month. On Saturday, September 30th 2023 join us in wearing orange shirts for Orange Shirt Day as we recognize that Every Child Matters. It is important to acknowledge and understand the atrocities that have happened in the past, and also acknowledge some still happen to this day.
Broken circle : the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir
Fontaine, Theodore, 1941- author
2010
Final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. Volume one : summary : honouring the truth, reconciling for the future : summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
2015
Finding my talk : how fourteen Native women reclaimed their lives after residential school
Grant, Agnes, 1933-
2004
From Bear Rock Mountain : the life and times of a Dene residential school survivor
Mountain, Antoine, 1949- author
2020
"In this poetic, poignant memoir, Dene artist and social activist Antoine Mountain paints an unforgettable picture of his journey from residential school to art school--and his path to healing. In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school--run by the Roman Catholic Church in collusion with the Government of Canada--three hundred kilometres away. Over the next twelve years, the three residential schools Mountain was forced to attend systematically worked to erase his language and culture, the very roots of his identity. While reconnecting to that which had been taken from him, he had a disturbing and painful revelation of the bitter depths of colonialism and its legacy of cultural genocide. Canada has its own holocaust, Mountain argues. As a celebrated artist and social activist today, Mountain shares this moving, personal story of healing and the reclamation of his Dene identity."-- Provided by publisher.
Honouring the truth, reconciling for the future : summary of the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
2015
Picking up the pieces : residential school memories and the making of the Witness Blanket
Newman, Carey, 1975- author
2019
Tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a living work of art. It includes hundreds of items collected from residential schools across Canada, everything from bricks, photos and letters to hockey skates, dolls and braids. Every object tells a story.
UNeducation. Volume 1, A residential school graphic novel : PG version
EagleSpeaker, Jason author, illustrator
2014
Up Ghost River : a chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history
Metatawabin, Edmund, 1947- author
2015