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Resources for Learning About Canada's Residential School System

Books on Canada's Residential School Legacy

The Circle Game: Shadows and substance in the Indian residential school experience in Canada by Roland Chrisjohn; Michael Maraun; Sherri R. Young
Call Number: E 96.5 C57 2006
Indian School Road : Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School by Chris Benjamin
Call Number: e-Book
The Legacy of School for Aboriginal People: Education, oppression, and emancipation by Bernard Schissel; Terry Wotherspoon
Call Number: E 96.2 S34 2003
Magic Weapons: Aboriginal writers remaking community after residential school by Sam McKegney; Basil H. Johnston (Foreword by)
Call Number: e-Book
A National Crime: The Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879-1986 by John S. Milloy
Call Number: E 96.5 M54 1999
Power Through Testimony: Reframing residential schools in the age of reconciliation by Brieg Capitaine (Editor); Karine Vanthuyne (Editor)
Call Number: E 96.5 P69 2017
Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts Its History by J.R. Miller
Call Number: e-Book
Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian residential school by Celia Haig-Brown
Call Number: e-Book
Also available in print - call number E 96.5 H35 1988.
Shingwauk's Vision: A history of Native residential schools by J. R. Miller
Call Number: E 96.5 M55 1996
The sleeping giant awakens: Genocide, Indian residential schools, and the challenge of conciliation by David B. MacDonald
Call Number: E 92 M33 2019
Stolen from Our Embrace: The abduction of First Nations children and the restoration of aboriginal communities by Suzanne Fournier; Ernie Crey; David Neel (Photographer)
Call Number: E 78 B9 F68 1997
This benevolent experiment : Indigenous boarding schools, genocide, and redress in the Canada and the United States by Andrew Woolford
Call Number: E 96 W64 2015
Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada by Paulette Regan; Taiaiake Alfred (Foreword by)
Call Number: E 96.5 R44 2010
Victims of Benevolence: The dark legacy of the Williams Lake Residential School by Elizabeth Furniss
Call Number: E 96.6 W54 F87 1995
Ohpikiihaakan-Ohpihmeh (Raised Somewhere Else) by Colleen Cardinal
Call Number: E 78 C2 C374 2018
Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh delves into the personal narrative of Colleen Cardinal's journey growing up in a non- Indigenous household as a 60s Scoop adoptee.