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Speaking my truth : reflections on reconciliation & residential school / selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar.

Rogers, Shelagh. (Added Author). DeGagné, Mike. (Added Author). Dewar, Jonathan. (Added Author). Aboriginal Healing Foundation (Canada) (Added Author).

Summary:

"Speaking My Truth": Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School (AHF 2013, eds. Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry) is a collection of stories that looks at the history of Residential School and possibilities for reconciliation from the perspective First Nation, Inuit, and Metis peoples. Feature first-person accounts from survivors, intergenerational survivors, this new scholastic edition of Speaking My Truth builds seeks to provide students and educators with a resource for generating understanding and much-needed debate around difficult questions of Reconciliation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada. Speaking My Truth has been selected from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's (AHF) three-volume Truth and Reconciliation series, which includes Vol. I From Truth to Reconciliation; Vol. II Response, Responsibility, and Renewal; and Vol. III Cultivating Canada.

Record details

ISBN: 9780987690043 (pbk)
ISBN: 0987690043 (pbk)
Physical Description: 252 p. : ill., ports. ; 20 cm
Edition: Book club ed.
Publisher: Ottawa, Ont. : Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Selected readings"--Cover. Selections drawn from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's three volume series: Truth and reconciliation: v.1. From truth to reconciliation ; v. 2. Response, responsibility and renewal ; v. 3. Cultivating Canada.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	A Foreward / Shelagh Rogers -- From Truth to Reconciliation -- Speaking My Truth: The Journey to Reconciliation / Garnet Angeconeb -- Reconciliation or Conciliation? An Inuit Perspective / John Amagoalik -- A Survivor Reflects on Resilience / Madeleine Dion Stout -- Confession of a Born Again Pagan (excerpt) / Fred Kelly -- A Call to the Churches: "You shall be called the repairer of the breach" / David MacDonald -- Perspective on Reconciliation from an Inuk Youth / David Joanasie -- Response, Responsibility, and Renewal -- On the Side of the Angels / Jose Amaujaq Kusugak -- Truth about Residential Schools and Reconciling this History: A Michif View / Rita Flamand -- Cry Me a River, White Boy / Drew Hayden Taylor -- Returning to Harmony / Richard Wagamese -- A Sorry State / Mitch Miyagawa -- Aiyah! A Little Rouse of Time and Space (excerpt) / Sid Chow Tan -- By Turns Poetic: Redress as Transformation (excerpt) / Roy Miki -- Land Project: A Conversation between Canada and Israel/Palestine / Cheryl L'Hirondelle, Joseph Naytowhow, b.h. Yael -- Questions for Reading and Discussion.