National Day of Remembrance (Orange Shirt Day) Titles for Adults, from the Multcolib Indigenous Team
Fiction and non-fiction titles for adults which discuss or address the history and legacy of residential and boarding schools, but also the resilience and survival of Indigenous Peoples, language, and lifeways.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS) is a leading national organization dedicated to advocating on behalf of Native peoples impacted by U.S. Indian boarding school policies. The organization provides educational…
Crystal Gail Fraser (Gwicyà Gwich'in) draws on Dinjii Zhuh (Gwitch'in) concepts of individual and collective fortitude to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools. Led by survivor testimony, she bears witness to the many ways…
Reporting for her local newspaper, Odawa Anishinaabe journalist Sierra Biidaaban Nadeau stumbles onto a family's--and a nation's--buried stories. This work becomes a sweeping journey through her family's history, the memories of survivors, and…
Born in 1935 in the village of Esket, Cecilia DeRose was welcomed into a loving, supportive Secwepemc family. Navigating the complexities of being a mixed-race family, both within and outside of the Secwepemc community, would be a lifelong source of…
A sweeping and deeply personal account of Native American boarding schools in the United States, and the legacy of abuse wrought by them in an attempt to destroy Native culture and life. Highlighting both Ojibwe journalist Mary Pember's mother's…
In Beyond the Rink, Behind the Image, the authors collaborate with three surviving team members--Kelly Bull, Chris Cromarty, and David Wesley--to share their stories behind photos from their team's 1951 tour through Ottawa and Toronto. Accessible…
Tells the tragic and shameful story of Indigenous erasure and genocide at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada. In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops…
The chilling chronicles of a family's exploitation in the boarding school system. What started as a scrapbook is now available as a graphic novel full of survivor interviews, tragic stories, poignant articles, graphic illustrations and honest…
Returning Home features and contextualizes the creative works of Diné boarding school students at the Intermountain Indian School, which was the largest federal Indian boarding school between 1950 and 1984. Diné student art and poetry reveal ways…
In Upon a Wishing Moon: Stories, Poems, & Images, Dennis Saddleman (Nlaka’pamux, Syilx), Dorene Bernard (Mi’kmaq), Dr. Antoine Mountain (Dene), Keith Chiefmoon (Blackfoot, Kainai) and Eugene Arcand (Muskeg Lake First Nation) share work shaped by…
Honours the fearless voices of residential school survivor Larry Loyie (Cree, 1933-2016) and intergenerational survivor Vera Manuel (Secwepemc, Ktunaxa, 1949-2010). In the early 1990s, these award-winning authors wrote about their individual…
Fred Sasakamoose (Cree) suffered abuse in a residential school for a decade before becoming one of 125 players in the most elite hockey league in the world-- and has been heralded as the first Canadian Indigenous player with Treaty status in the…
Torn from his family at the age of six, Solomon Ratt was placed into the residential school system. In kâ-pî-isi-kiskisiyân, Ratt reflects on these memories and life-long challenges through his telling of âcimisowina (autobiographical stories) and…
Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of her country as only she can -- through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and…
This collection of Manuel's (Secwepemc, Ktunaxa) works features her most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women", still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools, along with three previously unpublished…
Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Hockey open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway…
From the midcentury metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakhóta people to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the tale of three extraordinary women, told in part through the stories of the…
In 2021, evidence of unmarked graves was discovered on the grounds of an Indian residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada. After years of silence, the forced separation, assimilation and abuse many children experienced at these…
This documentary follows the difficult journey of Mark Soldier Wolf (Arapaho) and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools, patch together the historic record and personal stories of the relatives who…
The Many Names of Robert Cree is his first-person account of survival in a brutally racist residential school system designed to erase traditional Indigenous culture, language, and knowledge. It is also the story of an epic life of struggle and…
