Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School

Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School
ISBN-10
1771082151
ISBN-13
9781771082150
Category
History
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2014-09-24
Publisher
Nimbus+ORM
Author
Chris Benjamin

Description

The scandalous history of neglect, abuse, and exploitation at a residential school for children—and the ongoing effects in the decades since it closed. In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of Canada’s Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time. Benjamin integrates research, interviews, and testimonies to guide readers through the varied experiences of students, principals, and teachers over the school’s nearly forty years of operation, from 1930 to 1967, and beyond. Exposing the raw wounds of the twenty-first-century Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as the struggle for an inclusive Mi’kmaw education system, Indian School Road is a comprehensive and compassionate narrative history of the school that uneducated hundreds of Aboriginal children.

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