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A Knock on the Door - The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Abridged, Hardcover, Edited and Abridged Edition)
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A Knock on the Door - The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Abridged, Hardcover, Edited and Abridged Edition)
Series: Perceptions on Truth and Reconciliation
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It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local
Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police
officer."" So began the school experience of many Indigenous
children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the
history of residential schools prepared by the Truth &
Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Between 2008 and 2015,
the TRC provided opportunities for individuals, families, and
communities to share their experiences of residential schools and
released several reports based on 7000 survivor statements and five
million documents from government, churches, and schools, as well
as a solid grounding in secondary sources. A Knock on the Door,
published in collaboration with the National Research Centre for
Truth & Reconciliation, gathers material from the several
reports the TRC has produced to present the essential history and
legacy of residential schools in a concise and accessible package
that includes new materials to help inform and contextualize the
journey to reconciliation that Canadians are now embarked
upon.Survivor and former National Chief of the Assembly First
Nations, Phil Fontaine, provides a Foreword, and an Afterword
introduces the holdings and opportunities of the National Centre
for Truth & Reconciliation, home to the archive of recordings,
and documents collected by the TRC. As Aimee Craft writes in the
Afterword, knowing the historical backdrop of residential schooling
and its legacy is essential to the work of reconciliation. In the
past, agents of the Canadian state knocked on the doors of
Indigenous families to take the children to school. Now, the
Survivors have shared their truths and knocked back. It is time for
Canadians to open the door to mutual understanding, respect, and
reconciliation.
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