The education of Augie Merasty : a residential school memoir / Joseph Auguste Merasty ; with David Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merasty, Joseph Auguste, author.

Contributor:

Carpenter, David, 1941- contributor.

Series:

The Regina Collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Merasty, Joseph Auguste.

Indigenous peoples--North American--Saskatchewan--Residential schools.

Indigenous peoples.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (63 pages) : illustration, map

Edition:

New edition.

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from their families and sent to government-funded, church-run schools, where they were subjected to a policy of "aggressive assimilation." As Augie Merasty recounts, these schools did more than attempt to mold children in the ways of white society. They were taught to be ashamed of their native heritage and, as he experienced, often suffered physical and sexual abuse. But, even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty's sense of humour and warm voice shine through. This new edition includes a Learning Guide that deepens our understanding of the residential school experience, making it ideal for classroom and book club use. It also features a new postscript describing how the publication of this memoir changed Augie Merasty's life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

School days, school days

Hard times

The passion of sister Felicity

The loves of Languir and Cameron

Brotherly love and the fatherland

Father Lazzardo among the children

Sisters of the night

Lepeigne

Revenge.

Other Format:

Print version: Merasty, Jospeh Auguste. The education of Augie Merasty.

ISBN:

9780889774698

0889774692

9780889774681

0889774684

OCLC:

1419789147