Residential Schools - Recommended Reading for Adults

Updated March 26, 2024
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Winnipeg Public Library
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They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school
Sellars, Bev
BC Book Prize, Non-Fiction, Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Finalist) Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature: Bev Sellars, They Called Me Number One (Third Prize winner) Like thousands of Aboriginal children in Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world,...
Also available in eBook and DAISY formats.

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Burning in this midnight dream
Halfe, Louise
Also available in eBook format.

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Indian Horse
Wagamese, Richard.
"This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life." --Minneapolis Star Tribune Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub The Basis...
Also available in eBook and DAISY formats and as a Book Club Kit.

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Cheval Indian
Wagamese, Richard
"This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life." --Minneapolis Star Tribune Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub The Basis...

Enferme dans un centre de desintoxication, Saul Cheval Indien touche le fond et il semble qu'il n'y ait plus qu'une seule issue a son existence. Plonge en pleine introspection, cet Ojibwe, d'origine Anishinabeg du Nord ontarien, se rememore a la fois les horreurs vecues dans les pensionnats autochtones et sa passion pour le hockey, sport dans lequel il excelle. Saul, confronte aux dures realites du Canada des annees 1960-1970, a ete victime de racisme et a subi les effets devastateurs de l'alienation et du deracinement culturels qui ont frappe plusieurs communautes des Premieres Nations.

Aussi disponible en format numerique.

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Seven fallen feathers : racism, death, and hard truths in a northern city
Talaga, Tanya
Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston...

Also available in eBook and eAudiobook formats and as a Book Club Kit.


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