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Author Merasty, Joseph Auguste, author.

Title The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir / Joseph Auguste Merasty with David Carpenter.

Publication Info. Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource
Contents School days, school days -- Hard times -- The passion of sister Felicity -- The loves of Languir and Cameron -- Brotherly love and the fatherland -- Father Lazzardo among the children -- Sisters of the night -- Lepeigne -- Revenge.
Summary "Now a retired fisherman and trapper, 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 assimiliation.' As Merasty recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mold children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their native heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse. Even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty's generous and authentic voice shines through."--Publisher.
Subject BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Cree Indians -- Canada -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Canada -- Residential schools.
Merasty, Joseph Auguste -- Childhood and youth.
Off-reservation boarding schools -- Saskatchewan -- History.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
Native students -- Canada -- Biography.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools.
Subject Cree Indians -- Education -- Canada.
Local Subject Residential schools -- Saskatchewan -- History.
Added Author Carpenter, David, 1941- author.
Added Title Augie Merasty
Other Form: Print version: Education of Augie Merasty. (CaOONL)20159016819
ISBN 9780889773691 (electronic bk.)
0889773696 (electronic bk.)
9780889773707 (electronic bk.)
088977370X (electronic bk.)
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