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The education of Augie Merasty: A residential school memoir

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Merasty, Joseph Auguste, Carpenter, David. Sakatchewan, SK: University of Regina Press , 2017.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
GN 400 MER 2017
Availability
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A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation.; A retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lived rough on the streets, Augie Merasty was one of an estimated 150,00…
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Author
Merasty, Joseph Auguste
Carpenter, David
Place of Publication
Sakatchewan, SK
Publisher
University of Regina Press
Publication Date
2017
Physical Description
Hardcover; 150 p.
Subject
Aboriginal Health
Trauma Survivors
Abstract
A courageous and intimate memoir, The Education of Augie Merasty is the story of a child who faced the dark heart of humanity, let loose by the cruel policies of a bigoted nation.
A retired fisherman and trapper who sometimes lived rough on the streets, Augie Merasty was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of aggressive assimilation.
As Augie recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mould children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse.
But even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty's sense of humour and warm voice shine through.
ISBN
9780889774575
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
GN 400 MER 2017

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Up Ghost River: A chief's journey through the turbulent waters of Native history

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Metatawabin, Edmund, Shimo, Alexandra. [Toronto, ON]: Vintage Canada , 2014.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
GN 400 MET 2014
Availability
1 copy, 1 available
A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge. Foreword by Joseph Boyd…
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Author
Metatawabin, Edmund
Shimo, Alexandra
Place of Publication
[Toronto, ON]
Publisher
Vintage Canada
Publication Date
2014
Physical Description
Softcover; 352 p.
Subject
Aboriginal Health
Trauma Survivors
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Alcoholism Recovery
Abstract
A powerful, raw and eloquent memoir about the abuse former First Nations chief Edmund Metatawabin endured in residential school in the 1960s, the resulting trauma, and the spirit he rediscovered within himself and his community through traditional spirituality and knowledge. Foreword by Joseph Boyden.
ISBN
9780307399885
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
GN 400 MET 2014

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Trauma and recovery

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Herman, Judith. Basic Books , 2015.
Material Type
Book
Call Number
CD 710 HER 2015
Availability
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Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research …
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Author
Herman, Judith
Publisher
Basic Books
Publication Date
2015
Physical Description
Softcover; 326 pages
Subject
Trauma Survivors
Trauma
Sexual Assault
Sexual Assault-Coping
Abusive Relationships
Abusive Relationships-Coping
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder & Other Trauma- & Stressor-related Disorders
Abstract
Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war.
Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.
Notes
Recommended by CCDP.
ISBN
978-0465061716
Language
English
Material Type
Book
Call Number
CD 710 HER 2015

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