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    Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia / Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas.

    • Title:Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia / Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas.
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    • Variant Title:Experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
    • Author/Creator:Knockwood, Isabelle, 1931-2020 author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Thomas, Gillian, compiler.
      Xwi7xwa Collection.
    • Published/Created:Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, [2015].
    • Holdings

       
    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--Nova Scotia.
      Mi'kmaq--Education--History.
      Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--Shubenacadie
    • Canadian Subjects: First Nations--Nova Scotia--Shubenacadie--Residential schools.
    • Library of Congress Subjects:Knockwood, Isabelle, 1931-2020.
      Shubenacadie Indian Residential School.
      Shubenacadie (N.S.)
    • Edition:Fourth edition.
    • Description:192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
    • Summary:"In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their communities and destroying Aboriginal culture by denying them the right to speak Indigenous languages and perform native spiritual ceremonies, these residential schools were explicitly developed to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into Canadian culture and erase their existence as a people. Daring to break the code of silence imposed on Aboriginal students, residential school survivor Isabelle Knockwood offers the firsthand experiences of forty-two survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. In their own words, these former students remember their first day of residential schooling, when they were outwardly transformed through hair cuts and striped uniforms marked with numbers. Then followed years of inner transformation from a strict and regimented life of education and manual training, as well as harsh punishments for speaking their own language or engaging in Indigenous customs. The survivors also speak of being released from their school - and having to decide between living in a racist and unwelcoming dominant society or returning to reserves where the Aboriginal culture had evolved. In this newly updated fourth edition, Knockwood speaks to twenty-one survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School about their reaction to the apology by the Canadian government in 2008. Is it now possible to move forward?" -- Provided by the publisher.
    • Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
    • Notes:"With a new chapter on the Prime Minister's apology."
    • ISBN:9781552667293 (pbk.)
      1552667294 (pbk.)
    • Contents:Kwe'
      Preface to third edition: the code of silence
      Preface to the fourth edition: the truth and reconciliation commission
      Origins
      Everyday life at the school
      Work and play
      Rewards and punishments
      Ghosts and hauntings
      resistance
      The end of the school
      The official story
      Out of the depths
      Reactions to the apology
      The process of the book: discussions between Isabelle and Gillian
      Spelling Mi'kmaw words.
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