Alternate Title(s)

Cultivating Canada.
Reflections on reconciliation & residential school
Response, responsibility and renewal.

ISBN

9780988127425; 0988127423

Statement of Responsibility

selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry.

Edition

Scholastic Edition/First Printing.

Publication Information

Ottawa, Ontario : Aboriginal Healing Foundation

Physical Description

254 p. : illustrations, portraits 20 cm

Notes

Selections drawn from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's three volume series: Truth and reconciliation: v.1. From truth to reconciliation ; v. 2. Response, responsibility and renewal ; v. 3. Cultivating Canada.
"A reader"--Cover.

Contents

Foreword / Shelagh Rogers -- From truth to reconciliation -- Speaking my truth: The journey to reconciliation / Garnet Angeconeb -- Reconciliation or conciliation? An Inuit perspective / John Amagoalik -- A survivor reflects on resilience / Madeleine Dion Stout -- Confession of a born again pagan (excerpt) / Fred Kelly -- A call to the churches: "You shall be called the repairer of the breach" / David macDonald -- Perspective on reconciliation from an Inuk youth / David Joanasie -- Response, responsibility, and renewal -- On the side of the angels / Jose Amaujaq Kusugak -- Truth about residential schools and reconciling this history: A Michif view / Rita Flamand -- Cry me a river, white boy / Drew Hayden Taylor -- Returning to harmony / Richard Wagamese -- The little girl who would be Chief / Sophie Pierre née Eustace -- Cultivating Canada -- A sorry state / Mitch Miyagawa -- Aiyah! A little rouse of time and space (excerpt) / Sid Chow Tan -- By turns poetic: Redress as transformation (excerpt) / Roy Miki -- Apologies -- "I'm sorry" / Mike DeGagne -- Learning from the past: selected documents of reconciliation and apology from Canadaian government and churches -- By design: one book, among many / Glen Lowry.