Download or read book By Strength We Are Still Here written by Crystal Gail Fraser and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2024-12-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of Indian residential schools in the North In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwich'in) concepts of individual and collective strength to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools, revealing the many ways Indigenous communities resisted the institutionalization of their children. After 1945, federal bureaucrats and politicians increasingly sought to assimilate Indigenous northerners—who had remained comparatively outside of their control—into broader Canadian society through policies that were designed to destroy Indigenous ways of life. Foremost among these was an aggressive new schooling policy that mandated the construction of Grollier and Stringer Halls: massive residential schools that opened in Inuvik in 1959, eleven years after a special joint committee of the House of Commons and the Senate recommended that all residential schools in Canada be closed. By Strength, We Are Still Here shares the lived experiences of Indigenous northerners from 1959 until 1982, when the territorial government published a comprehensive plan for educational reform. Led by Survivor testimony, Fraser shows the roles both students and their families played in disrupting state agendas, including questioning and changing the system to protect their cultures and communities. Centring the expertise of Knowledge Keepers, By Strength, We Are Still Here makes a crucial contribution to Indigenous research methodologies and to understandings of Canadian and Indigenous histories during the second half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Ring Around the Maple written by Cynthia R. Comacchio and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ring Around the Maple is about the condition of children in Canada from roughly 1850 to 2000, a time during which “the modern” increasingly disrupted traditional ways. Authors Cynthia R. Comacchio and Neil Sutherland trace the lives of children over this “long century” with a view to synthesizing the rich interdisciplinary, often multi-disciplinary, literature that has emerged since the 1970s. Integrated into this synthesis is the authors’ new research into many, often seemingly disparate, archival and published primary sources. Emphasizing how “the child” and childhood are sociohistoric constructs, and employing age analytically and relationally, they discuss the constants and the variants in their historic dimensions. While childhood tangibly modernized during these years, it remained a far from universal experience due to identifiers of race, gender, culture, region, and intergenerational adaptations that characterize the process of growing up. This work highlights children’s perspectives through close, critical, “against the grain” readings of diaries, correspondence, memoirs, interviews, oral histories and autobiographies, many buried in obscure archives. It is the only extant historical discussion of Canadian children that interweaves the experiences of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children with those of children from a number of settler groups. Ring Around the Maple makes use of photographs, catalogues, advertisements, government publications, musical recordings, radio shows, television shows, material goods, documentary and feature films, and other such visual and aural testimony. Much of this evidence has not to date been used as historical testimony to uncover the lives of ordinary children. This book is generously illustrated with photographs and ephemera carefully selected to reflect children’s lives, conditions, interests, and obligations. It will be of special interest to historians and social scientists interested in children and the culture of childhood, but will also appeal to readers who enjoy the "little stories" that together make up our collective history, especially when those are told by the children who lived them.

Download or read book My Heart Shook Like a Drum written by Alice Blondin-Perrin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alice Blondin-Perrin is a Dene born in 1948 at Cameron Bay, Northwest Territories, from a good family, Edward and Eliza Blondin. Alice suffered through many years of abuse trying to fit into a new way of life in residential school. She was abused by Grey Nun supervisors upon entering St. Joseph's Roman Catholic School in 1952 at the age of four. She was hit over and over again but, little by little, the system changed her into a boarding-school ideology of being prim and proper while living with no love, no hugs and no explanations about life itself on a daily basis. Everything seemed sinful then. Upon leaving the residential school institutions, Alice had to learn everything about the outside world by herself and suffered from language barriers between her parents and the community. It took many years to learn about aboriginal culture and traditions, a heritage taken away by Government Initiatives. Despite this, she overcame those barriers by reading thousands of books to self-educate herself about life in general. She worked for thirty years at various jobs and raised two successful daughters. Alice now resides in Quebec with her husband, Dave."--Pub. website.

Download or read book Fragments of Truth written by Naomi Angel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In Fragments of Truth Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representations of the schools in popular media and literature, and testimonies from TRC proceedings, Angel traces how the TRC served as a mechanism through which memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many Indigenous communities were able to use the TRC process as a way to claim agency over their memories of the schools. Bringing to light the ongoing costs of transforming settler states into modern nations, Angel demonstrates how the TRC offers a unique optic through which to survey the long history of colonial oppression of Canada’s Indigenous populations.

Download or read book Fate of Blind Dates written by George Kariuki and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As judgment is the throne of prudence, man will live to know small beginnings may lead to large ends.The story focuses on the influence of poor parental care and the consequences it may result to children not guided or advised morally by their parents about their responsibilities. These children will take the opportunity to exploit themselves on any desire they wish. The brave ones will take the advantages and dump the slow learners into trouble unnecessarily.

Download or read book Shine My Heart written by Sadhna Ram and published by Sadhna Ram. This book was released on with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. 1 high school in Man Thanh has just received a good transfer student, who is both pretty and well educated. Although he is a student who jumped straight to the twelfth grade, his achievements are always outstanding. This good student is quiet, not flashy. Everyone thought her personality was gentle, meek, and nave until one day, they saw her indifferently raise her voice to a delinquent in the school: “Excuse me! Your mouth is so rotten, I thought it was a trash can.” "Promise." After that, she pulled the lap of a big brother in the class, said softly with curved eyes: "Next time, please cover your ears, don't listen to trash talk." “…” This lady turned her face too fast. Next, they stared at the cold big brother in the class, reaching down to grab the hand of a good student and then pulled him away. “!!!” *** Back in the tenth grade, Bach Trac just wanted to get closer to Xu Yem, a little closer, so close that she could raise her hand to touch his short hair. But Xu Yem secretly allowed her to approach him step by step, so close that he could smell the scent in her hair just by lowering his head.

Download or read book From His Heart to Yours written by Pam Cloonan and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you sometimes feel as if you are walking alone in your walk with God? Hear His words as He assures you of His presence within you—as well as in your thoughts, desires, hurts, failures, and hunger. Within these pages, you will find He speaks in a deeply personal way. Consider questions such as: • Does God yearn for your presence as much as you yearn for His? • Do you want to know God’s heart for you? • Do you want to be amazed at how deeply God understands you? This book also emphasizes that you’re not alone: The Father of all compassion holds your hand and your heart. He will never leave you. He hears you and He will answer you. Fill yourself with God’s love, find encouragement, and ignite your soul and faith with the insights in From His Heart to Yours.

Download or read book Child of the Holocaust written by Jack Kuper and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully and evocatively rendered, this memoir endures as an example of post-war narrative at its finest. Jankele Kuperblum was just nine years old when he returned home and found his family gone. The night before, Germans had come to his town in rural Poland and taken away all the Jews. Now alone in the world, he has to change his name, forget his language, and abandon his religion in order to survive. Jack wanders through Nazi-occupied Poland for four years with no place to hide and no one to trust.

Download or read book Medicine Unbundled written by Gary Geddes and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We can no longer pretend we don't know about residential schools, murdered and missing Aboriginal women and 'Indian hospitals.' The only outstanding question is how we respond." —Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun A shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada. After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his own country, embarking on a long and difficult journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care, including their treatment in the "Indian hospitals" that existed from coast to coast for over half a century. The memories recounted by these survivors—from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the memory of sexual abuse—are truly harrowing, and will surely shatter any lingering illusions about the virtues or good intentions of our colonial past. Yet, this is more than just the painful history of a once-so-called vanishing people (a people who have resisted vanishing despite the best efforts of those in charge); it is a testament to survival, perseverance, and the power of memory to keep history alive and promote the idea of a more open and just future. Released to coincide with the Year of Reconciliation (2017), Medicine Unbundled is an important and timely contribution to our national narrative.

Download or read book Falling For A Hood King 2 written by Shvonne Latrice and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Julius realizes Natalia missed her flight, he's overwhelmed with constant thoughts of the unthinkable. Always one who lived by the motto "money over bitches", Julius isn't used to caring about a woman as much as he cares for Natalia. Willing to do anything to find her, Julius is knocking down any and everyone in his way. But little does he know, the people he and Natalia least expected, are involved in her disappearance. In the past, Julius was the only obstacle in their relationship, but now that he's trying to turn over a new leaf, it seems that everyone and everything else is attempting to interfere. Is the love Julius and Natalia have for one another strong enough to fight off the turmoil threatening their relationship? Or will their union continue to be one-sided, ultimately crumbling in the end?

Download or read book Baby You re Messing With A Savage 2 written by Kelly Marie and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khaution has been hit with a revelation that he didn’t see coming! Not only was he duped into believing the lies Brixton fed him, but he was led to do the unthinkable... he killed his own dad! How do you come back from something like that? Well, in a way only a savage knows how to do. Brixton and Sybil believe that they have found the perfect cash monkey to do all their dirty work for them, but they forgot one thing... they are messing with a Savage! Savage finds it hard to forgive himself for what he has done, but he finds the strength by allowing the rage and thirst for revenge to lead him. He must, however, find his half-brothers, who are out for his blood. Will he be able to make things right with them in time? Autumn has been hit with the truth, the man she fell in love with isn’t who she thought he was. Will she stick it out with him or will she do something that will bring more drama to Khaution’s life? Things are about to heat up in this emotion-packed finale.

Download or read book Frankie and Lexi written by Tina J and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexi and Frankie are best friends and have been since they were kids. But what happens when a friendship fades, and people go their separate ways? Does it mean they won’t see each other again or does it make the friendship stronger when they reunite? Lexi is a college graduate who thought Frankie was the love of her life; until she met someone else. He swept her off her feet and promised to love her forever. Unfortunately, with every new person you meet, there’s always a hidden agenda. Frankie promised to marry Lexi when they were younger, but as fate would have it, nothing went as planned. She left for school while he stayed back and did his own thing. His new girlfriend, Crystal, has plans of her own for Frankie and will make sure nothing or no one stands in her way of getting him; including his long lost love Lexi. Take a journey with the characters you love to hate and see if Luvin' A Young Beast is everything it’s cracked up to be.

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Download or read book Conquering Spirit written by Paloma De’Goetz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How far would you be willing to go to find the other half of your soul? Possessing the clearest conscious awareness, I poured into this book earnest revelations of the many evolving trials and tribulations that my boundless soul has triumphantly endured. For much too long, as it lay muzzled in humiliation, strapped by an unjust, disbelieving, and harshly critical society, I hid my uplifting voice behind depriving drapes of indignity. So without further ado, having a most ardent desire and tremendously driven hope to help guide and inspire as many as possible still suffering souls who fervently seek to find their inner immaculate shining light, it is my dutiful honor to introduce you to Conquering Spirit, for that am I, one of God’s most peculiar specimen designs. I am here to convey through my extraordinary life living examples that just as I have painstakingly risen from the darkest depths of hell on earth, so too can each and every one of you. “What God Almighty and the divine universe in its combined genius magnificence have created as one mighty miraculous masterpiece can never ever cease to be.”

Download or read book Embracing the Gray written by Mark A. Hollingsworth and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Hollingsworth, a manager of rock bands and an advocate for the poor, tells his story about his family and his many travels around the world, always seeking to understand the uncertainties of life.

Download or read book My Mother s Voice written by Kay Mouradian and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching through volumes in several libraries and archives in the United States, author Kay Mouradian visited the village in Turkey where her mother and her mothers family, along with twenty-five thousand other Armenians, were forced to leave their homes. Traveling over the same deportation route to the deserts of Syria where more than a million Armenians perished, the author became acutely aware of the suffering of her mothers generation and the lingering sense of injustice they carried. Like the 6 million Jewish people lost in the Holocaust, Armenians lost an incredibly vibrant, successful, and valuable gene pool of more than a million as a result of the Armenian genocide. This story of fourteen-year-old Flora Munushian, the authors mother, brings an epic chapter in Armenian history to life and takes it to heart. Floras incredible story honors her people with dignity and personifies the human spirit of hope, love, and justice. Floras voice is that of all the victims and survivors of the Armenian Genocide, a story that must not be forgotten. I am my mothers voice, says Dr. Mouradian, and this is her story.

Download or read book The Heart of California written by Aaron Gilbreath and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath's trip retracing Latta's route by car during the 2014 drought. Latta embarked on his journey to publicize the need for dams and levees to improve flood control. Gilbreath made his own trip to profile Latta and the productive agricultural world that damming has created in the San Joaquin Valley, to describe the region's nearly lost indigenous culture and ecosystems, and to bring this complex yet largely ignored landscape to life. The Valley is home to some of California's fastest growing cities and, by some estimates, produces 25 percent of America's food. The Valley feeds too many people, and is too unique, to be ignored. To understand California, you have to understand the Valley. Mixing travel writing, historical recreations, western history, natural history, and first-person reportage, The Heart of California is a road-trip narrative about this fascinating region and its most important early documentarian.