Description: Further DetailsTitle: Out of the Depths, 4th EditionCondition: NewSubtitle: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova ScotiaEAN: 9781552667293ISBN: 9781552667293Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/02/2015Description: 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?"Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: CAItem Height: 23mmItem Length: 15mmItem Width: 1mmItem Weight: 227gAuthor: Isabelle KnockwoodGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Children's Learning & Education, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Out of the Depths, 4th Edition
Title: Out of the Depths, 4th Edition
Subtitle: The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential Sch
EAN: 9781552667293
ISBN: 9781552667293
Release Date: 04/02/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Edition: 4
Book Title: Out of the Depths, 4th Edition : The Experiences of Mi'kmaw Children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co., LTD.
Topic: Indigenous Studies, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.5 in
Features: New Edition
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Isabelle Knockwood
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
