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My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime of hell / Arthur Bear Chief.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bear Chief, Arthur, author.
- Series:
- Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
- Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bear Chief, Arthur, 1942-.
- Bear Chief, Arthur.
- Old Sun Indian Residential School (Gleichen, Alta.).
- Adult child abuse victims--Alberta--Gleichen--Biography.
- Adult child abuse victims.
- Abused Indian children--Alberta--Gleichen--Biography.
- Abused Indian children.
- Indigenous children--Abuse of--Canada.
- Indigenous children.
- Gleichen (Alta.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Athabasca University Press 2016
- Edmonton, Alberta : AU Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arthur Bear Chief suffered both sexual and psychological abuse during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. <EM>My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell</EM> is a of chronological vignettes that depict the punishment, cruelty, and injustice that Arthur endured at Old Sun and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story in connection with a complicated claims procedure. Late in life, after working for both the provincial and federal government, Arthur returned home to Gleichen. It was there that he began to reconnect with Blackfoot language and culture and to write his story.
- Contents:
- Preface / Judy Bedford
- My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime of hell
- Afterword: The burden of reconciliation / Frits Pannekoek
- Appendix A: Legal correspondence
- Appendix B: Letters of apology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 18, 2016).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781771991773
- 1771991771
- 9781771991766
- 1771991763
- OCLC:
- 962422569
- Publisher Number:
- heb40025 hdl
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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