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• Title:The survivors speak : a report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada / Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
  
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• Variant Title:Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
  
• Corporate Author/Creator:Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, compiler, issuing body.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[Winnipeg, Manitoba] : Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, 2015.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY special collection (non-circulating)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER T78 S87 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools
  Indigenous Peoples--Discrimination
  Indigenous Peoples--Relations with government
  Indigenous Peoples--Social conditions
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--History.
  Truth commissions--Canada.
  Indigenous peoples--Canada--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Autobiographies
  
• Description:xiii, 244 pages : portraits ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"As part of its work, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada provided former students - the Survivors of residential schools - with an opportunity to provide a statement on their experience of residential schooling. This volume of excerpts from those statements is being published as part of the Commission's final report. In this volume, residential school Survivors speak of their pain, loneliness, and suffering, and of their accomplishments. While this is a difficult story, it is also a story of courage and endurance. The first step in any process of national reconciliation requires us all to attend to these voices, which have been silenced for far too long." -- Back cover
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Issued also in French under title: Les survivants s'expriment, un rapport de la Commision de vérité et réconciliation au Canada.
  Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9781522796145
  1522796142
  9780660019857
  066001985X
  9780660019833
  0660019833
  
• Contents:Life before residential school
  Forced departure
  A place of refuge
  The journey
  Arrival
  Language and culture
  Bedwetting
  Daily life
  Strange food
  School meals
  Chores
  Religious training
  Separating siblings
  Gender relations
  Contact with parents
  Fear, loneliness, and emotional neglect
  Despair
  Hiding the truth
  Classroom experience
  Regimentation
  Integration into public schools
  Truancy
  Discipline
  Abuse
  Student victimization of students
  Medical attention
  Disability
  Warm memories
  Sports and recreation
  Cadets
  Improvements
  The end.