Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Canadian Native Women Reclaimed their Lives after Residential School - Softcover

Grant, Agnes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894856570 ISBN 13: 9781894856577

Publisher: Fifth House Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

When residential schools opened in the 1830s, First Nations envisioned their own teachers, ministers, and interpreters. Instead, students were regularly forced to renounce their cultures and languages and some were subjected to degradations and abuses that left severe emotional scars for generations.

In Finding My Talk, fourteen aboriginal women who attended residential schools, or were affected by them, reflect on their experiences. They describe their years in residential schools across Canada and how they overcame tremendous obstacles to become strong and independent members of aboriginal cultures and valuable members of Canadian society.

Biographies include:

Eleanor Brass, Journalist, Plains Cree, Saskatchewan

Rita Joe, Poet/Writer, Mi'kmaq, Nova Scotia

Alice French, Writer, Inuit, Northwest Territories

Shirley Sterling, School Administrator/Storyteller, Nlakapmux, British Columbia

Doris Pratt, Education Administrator/Language Specialist, Dakota, Manitoba

Edith Dalla Costa, School Counsellor, Woodland Cree, Alberta

Sara Sabourin, Community Worker, Ojibway, Ontario.

Dr. Agnes Grant worked with the Native Teacher Training programs at Brandon University, Manitoba, for thirty years. As an administrator and professor, she spent much of her time in remote communities. Dr. Grant is the author of No End of Grief: Indian Residential Schools in Canada and three other books. She lives in Winnipeg.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Agnes Grant worked with the Native Teacher Training programs at Brandon University, Manitoba, for thirty years. She travelled extensively in remote and isolated communities, both as an administrator and as a professor. As she listened to the students and community members, she learned of the tremendous effect residential schools have had on members of First Nations and Canadian society in general.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fifth House Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1894856570
• ISBN 13: 9781894856577
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224