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The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

Joseph Auguste Merasty

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This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.

Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author 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 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.

But, even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 105 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0889773688

ISBN13:: 9780889773684

kindle Asin:: B00V5I6P28

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

Joseph Auguste Merasty

3.97/5 (1346 ratings)

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This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.

Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author 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 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.

But, even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty’s sense of humour and warm voice shine through.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 105 pages

Publication:: 2015

Publisher:

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0889773688

ISBN13:: 9780889773684

kindle Asin:: B00V5I6P28

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