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Tsqelmucwílc : The Kamloops Indian Residential School―Resistance and a Reckoning by Celia Haig-Brown, with prologue by Garry Gottfriedson and forward by Randy Fred
Publication Date: 2022
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Behind Closed Doors: Stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Agness Jack and the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society (Editors)
Call Number: E 96.6 .K34 B45 2006
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A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System by John S. Milloy with forward by Mary Jane Logan McCallum
Call Number: E 96.5 .M5556 2017
Publication Date: First Published in 1999.
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Canada's Residential Schools: The Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: E 96.5 .T78 2016 v.1-6
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A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada with foreword by Phil Fontaine
Call Number: E 96.5 .K56 2016
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Picking up the Pieces: Residential School Memories and the Making of the Witness Blanket by Carey Newman and Kirstie Hudson
Call Number: E 96.2 .N49 2019
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From Bear Rock Mountain: The Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor by Antoine Mountain
Call Number: E 96.5 .M68 2019
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They Called Me Number One: Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School by Bev Sellars, with forward by Bill Wilson
Call Number: E 96.6 .S154 S44 2013
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Amongst God's Own: The Enduring Legacy of St. Mary’s Mission by Terry Glavin and Former Students of St. Mary's
Call Number: E 96.6 .S73 G53 2002
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Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools: A Memoir by Theodore Fontaine
Call Number: E 96.5 .F66 2010
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Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Native Women Reclaimed their Lives after Residential School by Agnes Grant (Editior), with forward by Marlene Starr
Call Number: E 96.5 .G718 2004
Available in print in the House of Learning.
From Truth to Reconciliation: Transforming the Legacy of Residential Schools by prepared for the Aboriginal Healing Foundation by Marlene Brant Castellano, Linda Archibald, Mike DeGagné.
Call Number: E 96.5 .C38 2008
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What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools by Helen Raptis
Call Number: E 96.65 .B7 R36 2016
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Metis History and Experience and Residential Schools in Canada by Larry N. Chartrand, Tricia E. Logan, and Judy D. Daniels.
Call Number: E 78 .C2 C435 2006
ISBN: 1897285299
Available in print in the House of Learning.
Reclaiming Connections: Understanding Residential School Trauma among Aboriginal People: A Resource Manual by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation and Deborah Chansonneuve].
Call Number: E 96 .C42 2005
Available in print in the House of Learning.
Shingwauk's Vision by J. R. Miller
Call Number: E 96.5 .M55 1996 E-book, House of Learning Library & Williams Lake Library
With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological and physical abuse they suffered in these schools, and many view the system as an experiment in cultural genocide.
Power through Testimony: Reframing Residential Schools in the Age of Reconciliation by Edited by Brieg Capitaine and Karine Vanthuyne.
Call Number: E 96.5 .P69 2017
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Websites

National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
"A place of learning and dialogue where the truths of the residential school experience will be honoured and kept safe for future generations."
Residential Schools Resources - Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Indigenous Education Resources

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