Description
In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of the 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 (1930-1967) and beyond. Exposing the raw wounds of Truth and Reconciliation 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 Indigenous children.
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Read it! This is a must read for every Canadian, especially those in the Maritimes. Extremely well written account of the abuses that the native children endured when they were forced to go to a residential school run by the Catholic Church. The book comes very very close to explaining the “why”, the “how”, and the “what”. Worth every penny!
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Five Stars 🙂
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The truth behind the residential school system. Myth busting beliefs concerning our First Nations people. A must read for all.
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It breaks my heart reading this book. Chris Benjamin does a great job of sharing the stories of the administration, the government’s officials, and the children that suffered while attending the school. Many times I had to put the book aside in disbelief that these events ever happen by people in positions of trust. In the end, this book is just heartbreaking to read.
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Loved this
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Outstanding book. Let’s you in on what it was really like in residential school in Nova Scotia
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Well written. Very sad that these people and their children were treated so badly by our government and the church.
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well researched and well written. provided a lot of info that I didn’t already know regarding the residential school system in general as well as specifically the one in Nova Scotia. arrived quickly in good condition