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They Called Me Number One
- Secrets and Survival at an Indian Residential School
- Narrateur(s): Bev Sellars
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A Knock on the Door
- The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged (Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation, Book 1)
- Auteur(s): Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Phil Fontaine - foreword, Aimée Craft - afterword
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“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).
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Not an easy read, glad I did
- Écrit par me le 2021-06-29
Auteur(s): Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Autres
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
- Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
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Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. The Indian Act, after 141 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous peoples, and is at the root of many lasting stereotypes.
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Essentially Canadian - Must Read.
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For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.
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Just get it. It's worth is.
- Écrit par Jesaray le 2020-12-25
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In My Own Moccasins
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Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption.
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Heart-wretchingly Honest
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Call Me Indian
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Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL. After twelve games, he returned home. When people tell Sasakamoose's story, this is usually where they end it. Sasakamoose's groundbreaking memoir sheds piercing light on Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows this man's journey to reclaim pride in a heritage that had been used against him.
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Eye Opening!
- Écrit par RL9 le 2021-12-01
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A National Crime
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For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the “circle of civilization,” the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system.
Auteur(s): John S. Milloy, Autres
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A Knock on the Door
- The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Edited and Abridged (Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation, Book 1)
- Auteur(s): Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, Phil Fontaine - foreword, Aimée Craft - afterword
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“It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer.” So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC).
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Not an easy read, glad I did
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21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
- Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality
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Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to understanding the legal document and its repercussion on generations of Indigenous peoples, written by a leading cultural sensitivity trainer. The Indian Act, after 141 years, continues to shape, control, and constrain the lives and opportunities of Indigenous peoples, and is at the root of many lasting stereotypes.
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Essentially Canadian - Must Read.
- Écrit par Marcel Molin le 2019-08-23
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Highway of Tears
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For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in northwestern British Columbia. The highway is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Highway of Tears is a piercing exploration of our ongoing failure to provide justice for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls, and testament to their families and communities' unwavering determination to find it.
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Just get it. It's worth is.
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In My Own Moccasins
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Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption.
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Heart-wretchingly Honest
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Call Me Indian
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Fred Sasakamoose, torn from his home at the age of seven, endured the horrors of residential school for a decade before becoming one of 120 players in the most elite hockey league in the world. He has been heralded as the first Indigenous player with Treaty status in the NHL. After twelve games, he returned home. When people tell Sasakamoose's story, this is usually where they end it. Sasakamoose's groundbreaking memoir sheds piercing light on Canadian history and Indigenous politics, and follows this man's journey to reclaim pride in a heritage that had been used against him.
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- The Canadian Government and the Residential School System
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For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the “circle of civilization,” the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system.
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The Inconvenient Indian
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The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other.
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Angry, embarrassed, disgusted, horrified, nauseous, scared and so so sad, but hopeful and now informed.
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Red River Girl
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On August 17, 2014, the body of 15-year old runaway Tina Fontaine was found in Winnipeg's Red River. It was wrapped in material and weighted down with rocks. Red River Girl is a gripping account of that murder investigation and the unusual police detective who pursued the killer with every legal means at his disposal. The audiobook, like the movie Spotlight, chronicles the behind-the-scenes stages of a lengthy and meticulously planned investigation. It reveals characters and social tensions that bring vivid life to a story that made national headlines.
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Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer (he calls her Baby) - and now she's dead.
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Excellent Story
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Seven Fallen Feathers
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In 1966, 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack froze to death on the railway tracks after running away from residential school. An inquest was called, and four recommendations were made to prevent another tragedy. None of those recommendations were applied. More than a quarter of a century later, from 2000 to 2011, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The seven were hundreds of miles away from their families, forced to leave home and live in a foreign and unwelcoming city.
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Essential reading for Canadians
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Unreconciled
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Part memoir and part manifesto, Unreconciled is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.
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Saul Indian Horse is in critical condition. Sitting feeble in an alcoholism treatment facility, he is told that sharing his story will help relieve his agony. Though skeptical, he embarks on a heartbreaking journey from the present - and into the woods of Northern Ontario, where his life began in a snowy Ojibway camp. The tale that follows is one of great pain and great determination from Richard Wagamese, an author who "never seems to waste a shot" ( New York Times).
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Heart wrenching and Humbling
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-11-11
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Gathering Moss
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- Auteur(s): Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
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Beautiful voice
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One Drum
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One Drum draws from the foundational teachings of Ojibway tradition, the Grandfather Teachings. Focusing specifically on the lessons of humility, respect, and courage, the volume contains simple ceremonies that anyone anywhere can do, alone or in a group, to foster harmony and connection. Wagamese believed that there is a shaman in each of us, that we are all teachers, and in the world of the spirit, there is no right way or wrong way.
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Engaging and thoughtful
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
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Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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Essential
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Braiding Sweetgrass
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- Auteur(s): Robin Wall Kimmerer
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
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Fabulous wise, informative, inspiring, beautifully written book!
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True Reconciliation
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- Auteur(s): Jody Wilson-Raybould
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There is one question Canadians have asked Jody Wilson-Raybould more than any other: What can I do to help advance reconciliation? This has been true from her time as a leader of British Columbia’s First Nations, as a Member of Parliament, as Minister of Justice and Attorney General, within business communities, and when having conversations with people. Whether speaking as individuals, communities, organizations, or governments, people want to take concrete and tangible action that will make real change. They just need to know how to get started, or to take the next step.
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A must read for Canadians
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Auteur(s): Jody Wilson-Raybould
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"Indian" in the Cabinet
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- Auteur(s): Jody Wilson-Raybould
- Narrateur(s): Jody Wilson-Raybould
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Jody Wilson-Raybould was raised to be a leader. Inspired by the example of her grandmother, who persevered throughout her life to keep alive the governing traditions of her people, and raised as the daughter of a hereditary chief and Indigenous leader, Wilson-Raybould always knew she would take on leadership roles and responsibilities.
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Interesting but not revelatory
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Auteur(s): Jody Wilson-Raybould
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Like thousands of Aboriginal children in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the colonized world, Xatsu'll chief Bev Sellars spent part of her childhood as a student in a church-run residential school. These institutions endeavored to "civilize" Native children through Christian teachings; forced separation from family, language, and culture; and strict discipline. Perhaps the most symbolically potent strategy used to alienate residential school children was addressing them by assigned numbers only - not by the names with which they knew and understood themselves.
In this frank and poignant memoir of her years at St. Joseph's Mission, Sellars breaks her silence about the residential school's lasting effects on her and her family - from substance abuse to suicide attempts - and eloquently articulates her own path to healing. They Called Me Number One comes at a time of recognition - by governments and society at large - that only through knowing the truth about these past injustices can we begin to redress them.
Bev Sellars is chief of the Xatsu'll (Soda Creek) First Nation in Williams Lake, British Columbia. She holds a degree in history from the University of Victoria and a law degree from the University of British Columbia. She has served as an advisor to the British Columbia Treaty Commission.
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- Julia
- 2019-02-23
Thank You!
as I listened to this book, as a native women. I had a lot of "wow moments". my grandma was in a Residential school in Alberta. my Grandma had eight children when passed away as a baby and my dad was the only boy. as my dad grew up I feel like he's been through a lot and has taken out his anger on his children and I think it has a lot to do with his mother being in residential schools as well as his father so it's kind of like a domino effect. even though I never went to residential schools my dad was raised by someone that did and it has messed him up which has messed me up my only goal in life is to be the best mother that I can take my children and not let this affect my children today. trust me when I say it is very difficult because sometimes I see my dad and myself, however at least I can recognize that and take a breath and start again. this was a great eye opener to me I have learnt a lot and even though my family has suffered and is still suffering all I can do is have my children appreciate their elders an understanding of history and be proud of who they are mentally emotionally spiritually. this book is a really good lesson I recommended 100% people need to know how bad residential schools were and how it still affects us today.
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- Joni
- 2018-02-16
Important Canadian History
This is a story that should never have happened. Every Canadian should read this book.
Bev is a bit dry to listen to as a narrator, but I couldn’t leave the book alone. I felt all of her pains and understand her hate. I am so sad and upset that the Native People Of Canada went through this- Good on you Bev for rising to the top.
READ THIS BOOK.
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- Pearl Miller
- 2018-07-01
AMAZING
Bev Sellars is a magnificent storyteller. Her truth and passion left me many times with goosebumps and the feeling that I wish I knew her and her family. I can’t speak highly enough of her book. Masterpiece.
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- Yness Boily
- 2018-06-22
A reality check for us Colonizing Canadians
I listened with difficulty as I struggle to come to terms with the darker side of my Canadian identity. This book and others like it MUST become part of the curriculum in our basic Canadian education!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-06-25
Every non-indigenous person living in Canada should listen/read.
This book will give perspective and break your heart. The author did an amazing job telling the story of her experience. Loved it and thankful for it.
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- Fairy Good Designs Co - Insta
- 2021-07-11
Amazing
As I sat and listened to her tell her own story I felt like I was actually sitting with her. you can hear the joy but also the pain in her voice as she recalls her life. I'm sorry this happened to you and so many others. thank you for sharing your story 🇨🇦💖
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- vanessa
- 2021-05-26
Important Read
I purchased this book in order to understand what Canadian residential schools were truly like, and I feel that Bev Sellers conveyed her personal horrors thoughtfully. I think this an extremely well written book and would definitely recommend.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2020-11-26
Essential Canadian History
Through justified anger and compelled by truth, Bev walks us through 3 generations of destruction. At the hands of the Mission residential school in Williams Lake and the consequences of the Indian Act, her story is about victory despite the destruction.
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- Leah
- 2020-11-23
Shocking, eye-opening and moving
A shocking first hand account of life in a BC residential school over several generations, this book will crack your heart wide open. Informative and evocative, I think it should be mandatory reading in Canadian curriculum. Awareness and understanding are the beginnings of reconciliation.
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- Sarahbear1983
- 2023-04-04
A Haunting Story of Abuse
It breaks my heart to hear of Bev Sellars's story of abuse at the hands of people who claimed to be religious
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- Susie
- 2017-08-22
Shame on Church and State
"Few people know anything about the collaboration of church and state to destroy races of people and cultures, genocide in the name of god."
Bev Sellars' often brutal testimony, gives insight into the cycle of poverty of indigenous peoples in Canada and (as she says) the United states, and even into Australia. She shows how dehumanization and cultural obliteration are passed down through generations.
She asks, "Is it possible to make others feel what I once felt?" The answer is yes. Her grandmotherly storyteller voice made me feel like I was hearing personal family history that I needed for my own survival.
Kindnesses shine like stars, but the bleakness is shameful and will be among the list of books that bolster my fight against systematic oppression.
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- Melissa
- 2019-12-30
True story
Many of the stories Bev shares in this book are similar to the stories elders that have shared with us regarding boarding school life.
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- Christina
- 2020-02-07
A truth that must be told.
This should be required reading for all schools. I was lucky, my grandmother saved me from the 60’s sweep. And I escaped the res, school experience, but my mother let slip some of her horrid experiences.
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- Denise Stacey
- 2020-03-20
They call me number One
This book was excellent. The explanations of life in the residential schools was so well described. The author brought you into the world of the Indians and their struggles, physically, mentally and generationally.
I learned so much and have a better understanding of the reservations and the residential schools.
Bev Sellars tells a story that reaches one’s soul! She is an amazing author!
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- Erin Sheldon
- 2021-07-31
Every Canadian should read this
This was a powerful, heartbreaking, and heartwarming story. Bev tells her story with clarity and determination. She goes to pains to name the people who were kind as much as she names the abusers. She doesn’t flinch when describing tragedy caused by colonization, but she also tells ordinary stories of family love that will be familiar to every person who listens. I feel like her grandmother and mine had much in common, and I’ve never admired anyone more than my grandmother. This is ultimately a story of personal victory, and a call for meaningful collective action. I am so grateful to have listened to Bev’s story. It is the most important book I have purchased from Audible.
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- Chad
- 2023-09-24
A moving story
A very sad history of how native children were abused and the tragic lasting effects. Bev's reading brought a very real history to light.
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- Utilisateur anonyme
- 2023-07-06
Interesting to hear her side of the story
Unfortunately the author seems very embittered. What she went through was similar to what I went through in Catholic schools and I’m about her age, but white and living in a white community. Some of what she states about discrimination by the Catholics against Indians (not burying the un baptized in consecrated ground) comes from the Bible. The parents would have known that in an emergency they could have baptized the child. I’m sure that the book has a basis in truth, but also shows a great deal of bitterness.
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- Sharon
- 2022-02-01
A reading of short anecdotes
There wasn’t a story line. It didn’t hold my attention because it didn’t flow.
It’s a lesson for sure but if this is how it’s taught, I don’t think it will be learned.
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- Y. R.
- 2021-12-14
So grateful for this book
The author tells a raw story that is informative and moving. It paints a picture of historical trauma that puts you square in the middle of a family’s home. Bev is as wonderful a narrator as she is a writer. I am so grateful to her and so grateful to know about gram. Gram seemed like a hero to her family. A thread in the wind that refused to let go. She embodied the culture and strength of her community and she passed those traits onto Bev. I would recommend this book to anyone.
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- Kim
- 2021-09-26
Exceptional
I don't normally write full reviews for books that I listen to, but I believe it is important for you to know that this book will always be in the back of my mind. It has completely changed my worldview on residential schools, challenges that indigenous people in Canada face, the social ills that surround them, and the pre-judgements on both the white side and the First Nation side. The author speaks with such clarity, wisdom, knowledge, and frankness that it is impossible to ignore the truth of what she's telling you.
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