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• Title: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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• Author/Creator:Florence, Melanie, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : James Lorimer & Company, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER F56 R47 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--History.
  Indigenous Peoples--Relations with government.
  
• Canadian Subjects: Indigenous peoples--Canada--Residential schools.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada--Juvenile literature.
  
• Description:128 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour map ; 29 cm
  
• Series:Righting Canada's wrongs.
  
• Summary:"Over more than 100 years, the Canadian government took 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children from their families and placed them in residential schools. In these schools, young people were assigned a number, forced to wear European-style clothes, forbidden to speak their native languages, required to work, and often subjected to physical and psychological abuse. If they tried to leave the schools to return to their families, they were captured by the RCMP and forced back. Run by churches, the schools were paid for by the federal government. The last residential school closed in 1996. It took decades for people to speak out in public about the devasting impact of residential schools. School Survivors eventually came together and launched court actions against the federal government and the churches. In 2008 the Canadian government apologized for the historic wrongs committed by the residential school system. The survivors' lawsuits led to the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, the largest class-action settlement in Canadian history, and the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Commission spent six years gathering testimony and discovering the facts about residential schools. This book includes the text of the government's apology and summarizes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action, which offer the basis for a new relationship between the Canadian goverment, Aboriginal people, and non-Aboriginal people."-- Back cover.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781459408661 (hardcover)
  1459408667 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Map of Residential Schools
  Introduction
  Life Before the Schools
  Conflict Arising from Contact
  The Children Are Taken
  Life at Residential School
  Closing the Schools
  Life After Residential School
  Apology and Redress
  Timeline.