Raymond Mason is an Ojibway activist who campaigns for the rights
of residential school survivors and a founder of Spirit Wind, an
organization that played a key role in the development of the
Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement. This memoir offers
a firsthand account of the personal and political challenges Mason
confronted on this journey. A riveting and at times harrowing read,
Spirit of the Grassroots People describes the author's experiences
in Indian day and residential schools in Manitoba and his struggles
to find meaning in life after trauma and abuse. Mason details the
work that he and his colleagues did over many years to gain
recognition and compensation for their suffering. Drawing from
Indigenous oral traditions as well as Western historiography, the
work applies the concept of two-eyed seeing to the histories of
colonialism and education in Canada. The memoir is supplemented by
a final chapter in which Theodore Michael Christou and Jackson Pind
put Mason's story into a historical and educational context. An
essential key to understanding the legacy of Indian residential and
day schools, this text is both a documentation of history and a
deeply personal story of a human experience.
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