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Out of the Depths
Isabelle Knockwood
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Description for Out of the Depths
Paperback. Powerful, first person accounts of the atrocities of the residential school system in Canada. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBCV; 3JH; JFSL9; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Black Point, Nova Scotia, Canada
ISBN
9781552667293
SKU
V9781552667293
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Ref
99-12
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