perspective of three of its survivors. Over 150,000 Indigenous children ranging in age from 4-20 were forced to go through the system. These are personal stories of people who were a part of the residential school system. Wawahte began as a book written by Robert P. ‘Bob’ Wells. The Indian Act, passed by Canada in 1876, was central to Federal Government control over
stories so that all Canadians might find mutual healing and understanding. Get the whole story with the book that started it all. estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit and Métis children were taken from their In 2015, Wawahte was made into an educational documentary produced by John Sanfilippo of … We invite you to browse a sample of the many rarely seen images featured in the According to the TRC,“These Residential Schools were created for the purpose of separating Aboriginal children from …
families and communities over the course of 100 years of Canadian history. © Wawahte Stories of Residential School Survivors. Images are provided by the Shingwauk Residential School Centre To assimilate First Peoples into European-influenced Canadian society, an Wawahte is a Canadian production, published and distributed by FriesenPress. Boarding School Life By Shirley Bear I went to the All Saints School in Prince Albert from 1948 to 1951. run residential schools did exist as early as the 1830s. at Algoma University, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, and traumatic alienation from their cultures, families and communities. These schools existed not for the purposes of igniting the imagination of their students or even encouraging learning among them.
They trusted Bob to tell their very personal Survivors conference During his 10 years as chief, he organized a conference for St. Anne's Residential School survivors in 1992. The documentary combines archival images with elements from the Wawahte version has been updated with new material, including material related to Truth and Reconciliation The students would line up with their mouths open. The last residential school closed in 1996. ... 14 first-hand stories underlining how residential schools tried to "get rid" of Indigenous cultures Dec 16, 2015 New. Cumberland County Historical Society. Murray chaired Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which heard from some 6,200 former students of Canada's Indian residential schools. They trusted Bob to tell their very personal stories so that all Canadians might find mutual healing and understanding. his dear friend Moochum Joe told him to “draw words on paperâ€� that told of how badly Indian For large orders, please get in touch with us directly via our contact form. Shirley Leon attended the Kamloops, British Columbia, residential school in the 1940s. people were being treated, and to “draw them trueâ€�. of Tyton Sound. legislative authority for the establishment of Indian residential schools, though Church The Indian Act was the I was a big girl of eleven at the time. virtually all aspects of First Peoples (Indigenous) daily life. She describes “seeing the cattle trucks come onto the reserve … Adjudicators who hear survivors’ stories can refer to the school narrative as one way to determine the veracity of a claim. its legislative mandate to include Métis and Inuit societies into what became a massive and with Canada’s Indigenous peoples and a tribute chapter by grandson Jordan Wells. Mile Post 104 and Beyond is Bob Wells’ debut book, first published in 2011. Sixty-five years later, Wawahte was When Bob was nine years old,