Book
Indian school days
Toronto, Canada • Key Porter Limited • Published In 1988 • Pages:
By: Johnston, Basil.
Abstract
This is a former student's reminiscence of life at an Indian residential school in northern Ontario during and after the Second World War. Told mostly in anecdotes, it is a humorous but painful account of 'acculturation.' During the war the students were taught obsolete vocational skills and discipline was cruelly enforced. The students developed a gallows humor and hated and feared their Jesuit teachers. Their diet consisted of mostly watery gruel, bread, and lard. After the war the school was upgraded to a high school with a liberal arts curriculum and the diet improved to include meat and butter. Under this regime the students learned 'to better themselves' and 'become true citizens of Canada.'
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Educator
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field Date
- 1939-1950
- Coverage Date
- 1930-1950
- Coverage Place
- Twentieth Century Ojibwa, Garnier Residential School, Spanish, Ontario, Canada
- Notes
- Basil H. Johnston
- LCCN
- c880932783
- LCSH
- Ojibwa Indians