Residential Schools

An annotated bibliography of the Native experience in children's books.

This educational kit is for educators in helping to raise awareness and teaching about the history and legacy of residential schools in Canada.

Indian elders Roy Thomas, Garnet Agneconeb, Ralph Johnson, Alice Littledeer, Eulalia Michano and Delaney Sharpe recount their experiences in residential schools.

Features the short documentaries of three First Nations filmmakers whose award-winning short films were previously featured in "First stories".

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.