Joseph Auguste Merasty -- Childhood and youth, Joseph Auguste Merasty, Cree -- Biography, Cree, Residential Schools, Residential schools -- Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Guy Indian Residential School, Sturgeon Landing (Sask.) 

"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. 

xxxvii, 96 pages : illustration, map ; 18 cm. 

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.