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Broken circle : the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir / Theodore Fontaine.
Summary:
Theodore Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada. Twelve years later, he left school frozen at the emotional age of seven. He was confused, angry and conflicted, on a path of self-destruction. At age 29, he emerged from this blackness. By age 32, he had graduated from the Civil Engineering Program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and begun a journey of self-exploration and healing. In this powerful and poignant memoir, Theodore examines the impact of his psychological, emotional and sexual abuse, the loss of his language and culture, and, most important, the loss of his family and community. He goes beyond details of the abuses of Native children to relate a unique understanding of why most residential school survivors have post-traumatic stress disorders and why succeeding generations of First Nations children suffer from this dark chapter in history.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781926613666 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 190 pages, 16 unumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Heritage House, 2010
- Copyright: ©2010
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook Campus | E 96.5 .F66 2010 (Text) | 31111000116663 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - |
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Writing of the emotional, physical, and sexual abuse he experienced during the 12 years spent in an Indian residential school in Manitoba, Fontaine, a member of the Sagkeeng First Nation, brings a first-person voice to the children's experiences in the schools, the life-long negative impact the schools had on their lives, the program of manual labor added to their lessons, the local businesses that benefited from the children's labor, and the attitudes and behavior of the employees and religious who ran the schools. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)