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The Indian Residential School in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, was established by the Canadian government in 1929 to provide residential education to orphan, destitute, neglected, and other Mi'kmaw Indian children aged 7-16. Since many Indian parents were poor and unable to provide for their children, they felt the school was a chance for their children to have adequate clothing and food as well as an education. The parents did not understand that when they signed school registration papers, they were transferring guardianship of their children to the school principal. The school's staff of 10 nuns and a priest (principal) provided room and board and education to an annual population of about 200 until the school closed in 1967. The 5-year-old author and her brother and sister were sent to the school in 1936. She was a resident at the school for 11 years. This book relates her memories, and other students' memories, of their life at the school: physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by the nuns and priest; inadequate food and clothing; lack of care when ill or injured; enforced labor in the kitchen, laundry, barn, and fields; and beatings for speaking their native language. Even though

Author

Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas

Publisher

Roseway Publishing Ltd., RR#1, Lockeport, Nova Scotia, Canada B0T 1L0; phone: 902-656-2223; Web site: http://www.outdoorns.com/roseway/orderdesk.htm ($14 Canadian dollars plus 7% tax and $3 postage)

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780969418054

Subjects

Education, History

Rating

4.17 / 5 (47 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13