Residential schools : the devastating impact on Canada's indigenous peoples and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's findings and calls for action / Melanie Florence.
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TextSeries: Righting Canada's wrongsPublisher: Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781459408661 (bound)
- 1459408667 (bound)
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada -- Juvenile literature
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- Native peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools -- Juvenile literature
- Internats pour autochtones -- Ouvrages pour la jeunesse
- Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Indians of North America -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature
- Indians of North America -- Education -- Canada -- Juvenile literature
- Indians of North America -- Education
- Indians of North America -- Social conditions
- Off-reservation boarding schools
- Canada
- j371.829/97071 23
- E96.5 .F567 2016
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Throughout the book, a symbol alerts readers to links to video and other resources for further information available from the Lorimer website for the series, www.lorimer.ca/wrongs.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1: Life Before the Schools -- Chapter 2: Conflict Arising from Contact -- Chapter 3: The Children Are Taken -- Chapter 4: Life at Residential School -- Chapter 5: Closing the Schools -- Chapter 6: Life after Residential Schools -- Chapter 7: Apology and Redress.
Canada's residential school system for aboriginal young people is now recognized as a grievous historic wrong committed against First Nations, Metis, and Inuit peoples. This book documents this subject in a format that will give all young people access to this painful part of Canadian history.
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