Nonfiction deep dive into the violence indigenous children experienced with residential schools and boarding schools.
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From Bear Rock Mountain: The Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor
Antoine Mountain
My Decade At Old Sun, My Lifetime Of Hell
Arthur Bear Chief
Suffer the Little Children: Genocide, Indigenous Nations and the Canadian State
Tamara Starblanket
Nishga
Jordan Abel
Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing
Clayton Thomas-Muller
Pipestone
Fortunate Eagle
Call Me Indian: From the Trauma of Residential School to Becoming the NHL's First Treaty Indigenous Player
Fred Sasakamoose
Fatty Legs: A True Story
Christy Jordan-Fenton
A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
John S. Milloy
Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation
Monique Gray Smith
A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
Jesse Wente
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
David Wallace Adams
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City
Tanya Talaga
The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir
Joseph Auguste Merasty
Broken Circle: The Dark Legacy of Indian Residential Schools
Theodore Fontaine
Stringing Rosaries: The History, the Unforgivable, and the Healing of Northern Plains American Indian Boarding School Survivors (Contemporary Voices of Indigenous Peoples)
Denise K. Lajimodiere
Genocidal Love: A Life after Residential School
Bevann Fox
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Edmund Metatawabin
They Called Me Number One
Bev Sellars
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