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Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia : with a new chapter on the Prime Minister's apology by Isabelle Knockwood; Gillian Thomas; Shubenacadie Indian Residential School (Shubenacadie, N.S.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their communities and destroying Aboriginal culture by denying them the right to speak Indigenous languages and perform native spiritual ceremonies, these residential schools were explicitly developed to assimilate Aboriginal peoples into Canadian culture and erase their existence as a people. Daring to break the code of silence imposed on Aboriginal students, residential school survivor Isabelle Knockwood offers the firsthand experiences of forty-two Survivors of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School. In their own words, these former students remember their first day of residential schooling, when they were outwardly transformed through hair cuts and striped uniforms marked with numbers. Then followed years of inner transformation from a strict and regimented life of education and manual training, as well as harsh punishments for speaking their own language or engaging in Indigenous customs. The survivors also speak of being released from th

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Author

Isabelle Knockwood; Gillian Thomas; Shubenacadie Indian Residential School (Shubenacadie, N.S.)

Publisher

Fernwood Books Ltd

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781552667293

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Social Science, History

Rating

4.8 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14