"Every child matters, including you and me. With our orange hearts, we walk in harmony." As a young child, your little world can be full of big feelings. In this book, I, Phyllis Webstad, founder of Orange Shirt Day, show how sharing my...
Off-reservation boarding schools
- Author:Webstad, PhyllisSummary:
- Author:Spathelfer, TeoniSummary:
Little Wolf, grown up with children of her own, moves to the country where her mother, White Raven, shares a sad story from her childhood. All grown up with a family of her own, Little Wolf moves from the big city to the island of her...
- Author:Orange, TommySummary:
A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK - The Pulitze Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller There There ("Pure soaring beauty." The New York Times Book Review) delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel....
- Author:Callaghan, JodieSummary:
A fiction picture book about residential schools. Author Jodie Callaghan worked as a journalist at the time of the Canadian government's apology for the residential school system. She took inspiration for this book from her...
- Author:Janicki, PeggySummary:
This illustrated nonfiction picture book tells the true story of how a group of girls at a residential school sewed secret pockets into their clothes to hide food.
- Author:Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their...
- Author:Robertson, DavidSummary:
A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy was soon adopted into a loving family. A few short years later,...
- Author:Florence, MelanieSummary:
This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them...
- Author:Dyson, Nancy, Rubenstein, DanSummary:
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.
- Author:Moro, Andy, Beagan, TaraSummary:
Reckoning is a triptych of three short plays: Witness is a dance-movement piece featuring a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner who unravels as he confronts the brutal testimony of residential school survivors. In Daughter, the...
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Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d?un bout à l?autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d?avis qu?afin de « civiliser et de...
- Author:Summary:
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de...
- Author:Summary:
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de...
- Author:Summary:
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d'avis qu'afin de "civiliser et...
- Author:Summary:
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d’un bout à l’autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d’avis qu’afin de « civiliser et de...
- Author:Summary:
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d'avis qu'afin de « civiliser et de...
- Author:Summary:
Entre 1867 et 2000, le gouvernement canadien a placé plus de 150 000 enfants autochtones dans des pensionnats d'un bout à l'autre du pays. Les autorités gouvernementales et les missionnaires étaient d'avis qu'afin de " civiliser et...
- Author:Robertson, David AlexanderSummary:
Finaliste prix TD/Récipiendaire du prix littéraire du Gouverneur général 2017, pour la version originale When we Were Alone. En aidant sa grand-mère à entretenir son jardin, une fillette remarque chez celle-ci des...
- Author:Dumont, DawnSummary:
Readers are invited to witness first hand Dumant family life on the Okanese First Nation. Beyond the stereotypes and clichés of Rez dogs, drinking, and bingos, the story of a girl who loved to read begins to unfold. It is her hopes,...
- Author:McCallum, Mary Jane LoganSummary:
This book takes its title from the phrase for "I work" in Lunaape, the traditional language of Munsee Delaware people, and was inspired by the work of the Munsee Delaware Language and History Group. Written for the descendants and...
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