Indian school days
Biography, Indigenous peoples biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Summary
In 1939, when Basil Johnston was 10 years old, an Indian agent took Basil and his sister to boarding schools run by Jesuit priests near Sudbury, Ontario. He writes of hunger, loneliness, abuse and culture shock as he describes the… government's policy to assimilate Indians out of a life of "poverty, dirt and ignorance" into the "Canadian way of life".
Title Details
Publisher
Key Porter
Copyright Date
1988
Book number
2517833
Audio details for CELA title
Narrator
Keith Melville
Duration
12 hours 32 minutes
Audio producer
CNIB, 2002.
Braille details for CELA title
Volumes
8
Braille producer
CNIB, 2001.