Indian school days

Type

Book

Authors

Basil Johnston ( Johnston, Basil )

ISBN 10

1550133071

ISBN 13

9781550133073

Tags

Garnier Residential School, Basil Johnston -- 1929, Indigenous peoples -- Ontario -- Biography, Ojibwa -- Biography, Ojibwa -- Education, Indigenous peoples -- Ontario -- Spanish -- Education, Ethnologists -- Canada -- Biography, Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools, Residential schools -- Ontario, Residential Schools, Saulteaux -- Biography, Saulteaux -- Education

Abstract

"Indian School Days is the humorous, bittersweet autobiography of Basil Johnston, a native Ojibway, who was taken from his family at age 10 and placed in a "residential" school in northern Ontario. The book opens in 1939 when the feared Indian agent visits Johnston's family and removes him and his four-year-old sister to St. Peter Claver's School, a boarding school run by Jesuit priests at Spanish, 75 miles from Sudbury, Ontario. In describing the years that follow, Basil Johnston creates marvelous portraits of the young Indian boys as they struggle to adapt to a harsh and strange environment, and of their Jesuit teachers, whose flashes of humour occasionally break through the discipline with which the institution is run."--Back cover.

Biblio Notes

Content:
Introduction
Spanish!
Sentenced to Spanish
A day in the life of Spanish
Holidays and Holy days
The year round
Summer holidays
Escape and near escape from Spanish
The cattle drive
The best-laid plans ..
Neither felons nor angels: and one beast
Farewell, Spanish justice, and farewell
Return to Spanish
New learning and cultural conflict
Football, chemistry and tired chickens
The bean rebellion and graduation.

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