Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community After Residential School

by Sam Mckegney

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The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mi'kmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in-depth...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0887557023

ISBN13:9780887557026

Release Date:November 2007

Publisher:University of Manitoba Press

Length:241 Pages

Weight:0.91 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 8.9" x 6.1"

Related Subjects

Americas Canada Classics Education Theory First Nations History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Native American Studies

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