Book documents residential school experiences – Winnipeg Free Press

Dec. 16, 2024

The University of Manitoba Press has printed a first-of-its-kind book that documents the in-depth experiences of children from Northern Canada, many of whom had to travel great distances and spent months — in some cases, years — away from their families in residential schools.

Crystal Fraser, who is Gwichyà Gwich’in and grew up in Inuvik, N.W.T., began her PhD research on the subject in 2010.

“There was this lived experience of seeing things in my community, of wondering about family dynamics, about watching people suffer with addiction and trauma and just never really knowing the story behind that,” she recalled.

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