It is an account of two people working at a Residential School on northern Vancouver Island and writing about the terrible conditions they witnessed at the school.
Native American
- Author:Dyson, Nancy, Rubenstein, DanSummary:
- Author:Lowinger, Kathy, Yellowhorn, EldonSummary:
From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited...
- Author:Mercredi, DuncanSummary:
mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms...
- Author:Harper, KennSummary:
Arctic historian Kenn Harper gathers the best of his columns about Inuit history, which appear weekly in Nunatsiaq News, in this exciting new series of books. Each installment of In Those Days: Collected Columns on Arctic History will...
- Author:Elliott, MarieSummary:
The history of gold mining on the Queen Charlottes (Haida Gwaii), the Fraser River, and in particular the Cariboo, with short bios of many of the important figures in the gold rush such as James Douglas and Matthew Baillie Begbie, as...
- Author:Daschuk, JamesSummary:
Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada....
- Author:Milloy, John S.Summary:
'I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.' — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) '[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis,...
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