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Selected Books on the Residential School System in Canada

Behind Closed Doors: stories from the Kamloops Indian Residential School by Jack Agnes (Editor)
Call Number: E96.6.K34 B44 2006
ISBN: 1894778413
Publication Date: 2006-11-01
Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
Call Number: PS8623.I52 B57 2016
ISBN: 9781443451352
Publication Date: 2016-02-16
Broken Circle: the dark legacy of Indian residential schools : a memoir by Theodore Fontaine
Call Number: E96.5 .F66 2010
ISBN: 9781926613666
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Children of the Broken Treaty by Charlie Angus
Call Number: E96.65.O58 A54 2015
ISBN: 9780889774995
Publication Date: 2017
ebook. Physical book also available using the call number above
Fatty Legs: A True Story by Christy Jordan-Fenton; Margaret-Olemaun Pokiak-Fenton
Call Number: E96.5 .J65 2010
ISBN: 9781554512461
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
A Knock on the Door by Aimée Craft (Afterword by); Phil Fontaine (Foreword by); Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Call Number: E96.5 .K56 2016
ISBN: 9780887557859
Publication Date: 2015-12-18
ebook. physical book is also available at the call number listed above
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: PS8607.I53 M37 2017
ISBN: 9781770864863
Publication Date: 2017-09-01
A Mind Spread Out on the Ground by Alicia Elliot
Call Number: E78.C2 E47 2019
ISBN: 9780385692380
Publication Date: 2019
A National Crime by John S. Milloy; Mary Jane Logan McCallum (Foreword by)
Call Number: E96.5 .M56 1999
ISBN: 9780887555213
Publication Date: 2017-03-29
ebook. Physical book also available at the call number above.
The Orange Shirt Story by Phyllis Webstad; Brock Nicol (Illustrator); Emma Bullen (Editor)
Call Number: PZ7.W43 Or 2018
ISBN: 9780993869495
Publication Date: 2018-09-01
Located in the first floor children's collection
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
Call Number: E98.S67 T35 2017
ISBN: 9781487002268
Publication Date: 2017-11-07
Unsettling the Settler Within by Paulette Regan; Taiaiake Alfred (Foreword by)
Call Number: E96.5 R44 2010
ISBN: 9780774817783
Publication Date: 2011-01-25
Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin; Alexandra Shimo
Call Number: E99.C88 M484 2014
ISBN: 9780307399878
Publication Date: 2014-08-26
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Call Number: PS8595.A34274 I535 2012
ISBN: 9781553659709
Publication Date: 2012-01-27
ebook. Physical book also available at the call number above.
Betty by David A. Robertson; Scott B. Henderson (Illustrator)
Call Number: E98.W8 R63 2015
ISBN: 9781553795445
Publication Date: 2015-04-27
In This Together: fifteen stories of truth & reconciliation by Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail (Editor)
Call Number: E78.C2 I422 2016
ISBN: 9781927366462
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
ebook. Physical book also available at the call number above.