Residential Schools

Behind Closed Doors features written testimonials from thirty-two individuals who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Theodore (Ted) Fontaine lost his family and freedom just after his seventh birthday, when his parents were forced to leave him at an Indian residential school by order of the Roman Catholic Church and the Government of Canada.

6 part final report available in print

A graphic novel. A school assignment to interview a residential school survivor leads Daniel to Betsy, his friend's grandmother, who tells him her story.

Margaret's years at school have changed her. Now ten years old, she has forgotten her language and the skills to hunt and fish. She can't even stomach her mother's food. Her only comfort is in the books she learned to read at school. Gradually, Margaret relearns the words and ways of her people.

The powerful memoir of an Inuvialuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school.

Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys.