Residential Schools

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Setting the Scene From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	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 Feathers Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City House of Anansi Press	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
From NEW! Sir John A. MacDonald From: The Prime Ministers View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Stewart traces the life of Sir John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), Canada’s first prime minister, from Confederation between 1864 and 1867 through his vision of a …	J.D.M. Stewart	24	2025	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Stephen Harper From: The Prime Ministers View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Stewart examines Stephen Harper, Canada’s twenty-second prime minister, whose tenure from 2006 to 2015 shaped Conservative governance.	J.D.M. Stewart	19	2025	$1.90 Add
From The Children are Taken From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The Early Years of the Mission School Education and Discipline From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	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
From The Government Investigation From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	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
From The Hard Luck Shuswap Kid 1920-1932 From: Brotherhood to Nationhood View Between The Lines	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
From The History From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: Summary View James Lorimer and Company	Details the history of the residential school system. Puts the history in context of imperialism, colonization, and assimilation. Describes the experience children would have had at the schools.	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada	140	2015	$14.00 Add
From The Legacy From: Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada Volume One: Summary View James Lorimer and Company	Details the legacy of the residential school system in the lives of the Indigenous people of Canada includes the calls to action for each repercussion of the residential school system.	Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada	56	2015	$5.60 Add
From The Resistance From: Resistance and Renewal View Arsenal Pulp Press	People rarely comply fully and easily to the introduction of oppression. Native children also produced counter-cultures in their resistance to the oppressive system which was Kamloops Indian …	Celia Haig-Brown	27	1988	$0.54 Add
From The Resistance From: TSQELMUCWÍLC View Arsenal Pulp Press	In Chapter Four the author describes forms of resistance by the students within Kamloops Indian Residential School.	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From NEW! The shape of my body From: On Wholeness View House of Anansi Press	In this chapter, Christie-Peters examines how settler colonialism has impacted Anishinaabe bodies across generations.	Quill Christie-Peters	26	2025	$2.60 Add
From The Shuswap Response to Colonialism From: Victims of Benevolence View Arsenal Pulp Press	Despite strong opposition, the Shuswap people were forced to adopt the colonial way of living. They were pushed out of their home and discouraged to practice sacred rituals. Ultimately, in 1891, …	Elizabeth Furniss	24	1992	$0.48 Add
From Timeline From: Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Residential Schools View James Lorimer and Company	A timeline of the events discussed in the book beginning with the opening of the first residential school in 1831 and concluding with the TRC final report and call to action in 2015.	Melanie Florence	2	2016	$0.20 Add
TSQELMUCWÍLC The Kamloops Indian Residential School—Resistance and A Reckoning Arsenal Pulp Press	"Tsqelmucwilc" (pronounced cha-CAL-mux-weel) is a Secwepemc phrase loosely translated as "We return to being human again." Tsqelmucwilc is the story of those who survived the …	Celia Haig-Brown; Garry Gotfriedson; Randy Fred	288	2022	View