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Indian school road : legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School / Chris Benjamin.

Benjamin, Chris, 1975- (Author).

Summary:

Journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time. Benjamin integrates research, interviews, and testimonies to guide readers through the varied experiences of students, principals, and teachers over the school's nearly forty years of operation (1930<U+2013>1967) and beyond. Exposing the raw wounds of Truth and Reconciliation as well as the struggle for an inclusive Mi'kmaw education system, Indian School Road is a comprehensive and compassionate narrative history of the school that uneducated hundreds of Aboriginal children. -- Review from publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781771082136 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xvii, 238 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Halifax, Nova Scotia : Nimbus Publishing, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword -- Introduction: Why and how -- I. Before Schubenacadie - A superiority complex - The Canadian residential school system -- II. The Schubenacadie Indian Residential School - A school for Maritime Indians - The men in charge - The teachers - The children -- III. One year from another - Push for change - The last decade -- IV. After Schubenacadie - Children in care - Lasting hurt - Reconciliation - Moving education - Circling back -- Sources and acknowledgements -- Further reading.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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