"Speaking my truth"
Subtitle: reflections on reconciliation & residential school
By: selected by Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry
Contributors: Aboriginal Healing Foundation (Canada)
Edition: Scholastic edition.
Publisher: Aboriginal Healing Foundation
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ottawa, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780988127425; 9780987690043; 9780988127432
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Reconciliation (Law); Off-reservation boarding schools; History; Indigenous children; Abuse of; Indians of North America; Education; Native peoples; Residential schools; Reparations
Other titles: Reflections on reconciliation & residential school; Abridgement of (expression): From truth to reconciliation.; Abridgement of (expression): Response, responsibility and renewal.; Abridgement of (expression): Cultivating Canada.; Translated as: Clamer ma vérité.
Description: "Following the success of an earlier Book Club edition, this volume has been revised and re-edited for scholastic and academic purposes. These essays, which shed light on the lived and living experiences and legacies of Residential Schools, are offered in the sincere hop that your reading and discussion of them will become part of a much needed dialogue on reconciliation in Canada."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: "Comprises selections from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's Truth and reconciliation series: Vol. 1, From Truth to Reconciliation, Vol. 2, Response, Responsibility and Renewal, and Vol. 3, Cultivating Canada"--Title page verso.

Issued also in French under title: "Clamer ma vérité" : réflexions sur la réconciliation et le pensionnat.

"A reader"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed in the Native American Artists Resource Collection Online, Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, at the artist name level (December 7, 2020) http://5019.sydneyplus.com/Heard_Museum_ArgusNET_Final/Portal.aspx
Table of contents: title: Speaking my truth : the journey to reconciliation  -- Garnet Angeconeb; title: Reconciliation or conciliation? : an Inuit perspective  -- John Amagoalik; title: A survivor reflects on resilience  -- Madeleine Dion Stout; title: Confession of a born again pagan (excerpt)  -- Fred Kelly; title: A call to the churches : "You shall be called the repairer of the breach" (excerpt)  -- David MacDonald; title: Perspective on reconciliation from an Inuk youth  -- David Joanasie; title: On the side of the angels  -- Jose Amaujaq Kusugak; title: Truth about residential schools and reconciling this history : a Michif view  -- Rita Flamand; title: Remembering the children : the Church and Aboriginal Leaders Tour  -- Fred Hiltz; title: Cry me a river, White boy  -- Drew Hayden Taylor; title: Returning to harmony  -- Richard Wagamese; title: The little girl who would be chief  -- Sophie Pierre (née Eustace); title: A sorry state  -- Mitch Miyagawa; title: Aiyah! : a little rouse of time and space (excerpt)  -- Sid Chow Tan; title: By turns poetic : redress as transformation (excerpt)  -- Roy Miki; title: "I'm sorry"  -- Mike DeGagne; title: Learning from the past : selected documents of reconciliation and apology from Canadaian government and churches --; title: By design : one book, among many -- Glen Lowry.