By Joseph Auguste Merasty
This memoir bargains a brave and intimate chronicle of lifestyles in a residential university.
Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the writer used to be one in every of an expected 150,000 First international locations, Inuit, and Metis little ones who have been taken from their households and despatched to government-funded, church-run colleges, the place they have been topic to a coverage of "aggressive assimilation."
As Augie Merasty recounts, those colleges did greater than try out o mould teenagers within the methods of white society. They have been taught to be embarrassed about their local history and, as he skilled, frequently suffered actual and sexual abuse.
But at the same time he appears to be like again in this painful a part of his adolescence, Merasty's feel of humour and hot voice shine through.
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