St. Michael's Residential School: Lament and Legacy

by Dan Rubenstein and Nancy Dyson

Book Overview

In 1970, the authors, Nancy Dyson and Dan Rubenstein, were hired as childcare workers at the Alert Bay Student Residence (formerly St. Michael's Indian Residential School) on northern Vancouver Island. Shocked when Indigenous children were forcibly taken from their families, punished for speaking their native language, fed substandard food and severely disciplined for minor offences, Dan and Nancy questioned the way the school was run with its underlying...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553806239
• ISBN13: 9781553806233
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"