Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School

by Sam Mckegney

Book Overview

The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887557023
• ISBN13: 9780887557026
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 6.1"