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Corporate Author Survivors of the Assiniboia Indian Residential School

Title Did you see us? : reunion, remembrance, and reclamation at an urban Indian residential school / survivors of the Assiniboia Residential School, [edited by Andrew Woolford, Morgan Fontaine, and Theodore Fontaine].

Publication Info. Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation ; 5
Perceptions on truth and reconciliation ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part I : the residential years, 1958-67. We all got along and treated each other with kindness and respect / Dorothy-Ann Crate -- Assiniboia was a place of hope for us... but it was still a residential school / Theodore Fontaine -- Sihko's story : Assiniboia Indian Residential School / Jane Glennon -- It's a whole different way of life / Caroline Perreault -- Two hundread and twenty-two miles from home / Valerie T. Mainville -- On the whole, it was a good experience / Mabel Horton -- You gotta keep going... no matter what / David Montana Wesley -- What the hell am I doing here? / Hubert (Gilbert) Hart -- KēKwan-Ochiy? Why? / Betty Ross -- We were told to hand the flame to a white runner / Charlie Nelson. Part II : the hostel years, 1967-73. You're not protecting us / Carole Starr -- I stuck with it / Martina Fisher. Part III : Assiniboia and the archive. The archive remembers : reading an institution's memory / Andrew Woolford. Part IV : staff remembrances. I loved the students like they were my kid brothers and sisters / Sister Jean Ell -- We won more than we lost / Luc Marchildon. Part V : neighbours. I was unaware / Gary Robson -- They were there, and did their best / Patricia Holbrow -- I think they're the boys from the Indian school / Morgan Sizeland Fontaine. Part VI : the city of Winnipeg remembers. Assiniboia Resedential School Interpretive Panel Project / Murray Peterson -- La vérité / Aila Potosky -- Canadian Centre for Child Protection / Lianna McDonald -- Residential school in city's backyard / Catherine Mitchell. Part VII : reunion, remembrance, and reclamation. Reunion and remembrance : gathering knowledge / Andrew Woolford -- The legacy of reunion, remembrance, and reclamation / Theodore Fontaine Acknowledgements -- Appendix : Assiniboia Indian Residential School timeline -- Notes -- Contributors.
Summary "The Assiniboia school is unique within Canada's Indian Residential School system. It was the first residential high school in Manitoba and one of the only residential schools in Canada to be located in a large urban setting. Operating between 1958 and 1973 in a period when the residential school system was in decline, it produced several future leaders, artists, educators, knowledge keepers, and other notable figures. It was in many ways an experiment within the broader destructive framework of Canadian residential schools. Stitching together memories of arrival at, day-to-day life within, and departure from the school with a socio-historical reconstruction of the school and its position in both Winnipeg and the larger residential school system, Did You See Us? offers a glimpse of Assiniboia that is not available in the archival records. It connects readers with a specific residential school and illustrates that residential schools were often complex spaces where forced assimilation and Indigenous resilience co-existed. These recollections of Assiniboia at times diverge, but together exhibit Survivor resilience and the strength of the relationships that bond them to this day. The volume captures the troubled history of residential schools. At the same time, it invites the reader to join in a reunion of sorts, entered into through memories and images of students, staff, and neighbours. It is a gathering of diverse knowledges juxtaposed to communicate the complexity of the residential school experience."-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Assiniboia Indian Residential School (Winnipeg, Man.)
Assiniboia Indian Residential School (Winnipeg, Man.)
Indian students -- Manitoba -- Biography.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg.
Indians of North America -- Manitoba -- Biography.
First Nations -- Education -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg -- History -- 20th century.
First Nations -- Residential schools -- Manitoba
First Nations students -- Manitoba -- Biography.
First Nations -- Manitoba -- Biography.
HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-).
Indigenous peoples
Indigenous peoples -- Education
Manitoba https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRkJ4DW3gpWHdJVCwX7B
Manitoba -- Winnipeg https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwRVfjhGtVQ8gJkRQdRKd
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term 20th century
Biography
Education
History
Indigenous peoples
Manitoba
Native students
Residential schools
Winnipeg
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Added Author Woolford, Andrew John, 1971- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjvP6DjfX9JQhxDy76QFyq
Fontaine, Morgan, editor.
Fontaine, Theodore, 1941- editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjv9hK63vqkgTQqXcCWrWP
Added Title Reunion, remembrance, and reclamation at an urban Indian residential school
Other Form: Print version: Did you see us? Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, 2021 0887559255 9780887559259 (OCoLC)1196094237
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