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]

Published 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. 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 Analysis 20th century Biography Education History Indigenous peoples Manitoba Native students Residential schools Winnipeg Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 17, 2021) Subject Assiniboia Indian Residential School (Winnipeg, Man.) Indian students -- Manitoba -- Biography Off-reservation boarding schools -- Manitoba -- Winnipeg Indians of North America -- Manitoba -- Biography HISTORY / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-). Indigenous peoples Indigenous peoples -- Education Manitoba Manitoba -- Winnipeg Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Form Electronic book Author Woolford, Andrew John, 1971- editor. Fontaine, Morgan, editor Fontaine, Theodore, 1941- editor. ISBN 9780887559242 0887559247 9780887559204 0887559204

Other Titles Reunion, remembrance, and reclamation at an urban Indian residential school

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