Residential Schools
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From ![]() Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, IntroductionFrom: The Imaginary Indian |
Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … | Daniel Francis; Randy Fred | 43 | 1992 | $4.30 Add |
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From ![]() Preface to the Second Edition, Acknowledgements, Foreword by Randy Fred, Introduction |
Randy Fred debunks the concept of “Indians” and claims that Native people live within a world of imagery that isn’t their own. Daniel Frances further explores the myth that is … | Daniel Francis; Randy Fred | 43 | 1992 | $1.72 Add |
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From ![]() PrologueFrom: Seven Fallen Feathers |
In this reading, Indigenous author Tanya Talaga begin with a retelling of an Ojibwe myth. She goes on to provide context for the rest of the book by describing the culture, geography, and history … | Tanya Talaga | 17 | 2017 | $2.04 Add |
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From ![]() Prologue, Forward, PrefaceFrom: TSQELMUCWÍLC |
Acknowledgements, contributors, a prologue written by Garry Gottfriedson, a foreword by Randy Fred, as well as a preface are provided. | Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
![]() Resistance and RenewalSurviving the Indian Residential School |
One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian … | Celia Haig-Brown | 172 | 1988 | View |
![]() Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential SchoolsThe Devastating Impact on Canada’s Indigenous People and the Reconciliation Commission’s Findings and Calls for Action |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the history and effects of the Residential School system in Canada. This title makes … | 130 | View | ||
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From ![]() Runaways and a SuicideFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
Children continued to run away from the Mission through the first decade of the 1900s. In the summer of 1920 nine boys at the Mission grouped together and ate some poisonous water hemlock. One … | Elizabeth Furniss | 27 | 1992 | $0.54 Add |
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From ![]() School LifeThe School Day; Extracurricular Activities; Discipline; Family Visits and Summer Holidays From: Resistance and Renewal |
The author takes the reader through the residential school life: what a typical day looked like for the children, the discrimination they faced, the regimented learning of religion, subpar food … | Celia Haig-Brown | 50 | 1988 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() School LifeFrom: TSQELMUCWÍLC |
Chapter Three details what life was like for students within the Kamloops Indian Residential School, and written records of first hand accounts are provided. | Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred | 62 | 2022 | $6.20 Add |
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From ![]() Setting the SceneThe Governments; Missionaries; The Secwepemc From: Resistance and Renewal |
The chapter highlights the role the Government and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate played in the life of Native peoples, especially the Secwepemc. | Celia Haig-Brown | 22 | 1988 | $0.44 Add |
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From ![]() Setting the SceneFrom: TSQELMUCWÍLC |
Chapter One provides the historical context within which Kamloops Indian Residential School came to be. | Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
![]() Seven Fallen FeathersRacism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City |
The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. … | Tanya Talaga | 387 | 2017 | View |
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From ![]() The Children are Taken |
This chapter discusses how thousands of children were forcibly removed from their homes and taken to residential schools. It illustrates this with photographs, illustrations, and documents as … | Melanie Florence | 6 | 2016 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Early Years of the Mission SchoolEducation and Discipline From: Victims of Benevolence |
Native children learned the skills they needed to survive, and the beliefs, values, and codes of behaviour appropriate to their society, by a trial-and error process of observing and imitating … | Elizabeth Furniss | 28 | 1992 | $0.56 Add |
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From ![]() The Government InvestigationFrom: Victims of Benevolence |
The Indian Superintendent of B.C., A.W. Vowell was tasked to conduct the investigation into the death of Duncan Sticks. Vowell discredited the student testimonies, putting the blame on them … | Elizabeth Furniss | 21 | 1992 | $0.42 Add |
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From ![]() The Hard Luck Shuswap Kid1920-1932 |
The second chapter of George Manuel’s biography outlines his early childhood up to age 12, an only child to his mother, and his father, who died when he was a baby. He was eventually raised … | Doreen Manuel; Peter McFarlane | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |











