The Education of Augie Merasty offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, Joseph A. (Augie) Merasty 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 assimiliation. As 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. Even as he looks back on this painful part of his childhood, Merasty's generous and authentic voice shines through.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Regina Press
ISBN-10
0889773688
ISBN-13
9780889773684
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209122333
Product Key Features
Author
Joseph Auguste Merasty
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Autobiography: General
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Regina
Content Note
Illustrations
Author Biography
David Carpenter, a former university teacher, is a fiction writer and essayist. Courting Saskatchewan, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for nonfiction in 1997. In 2000 he published his first book of poetry, Trout Stream Creed.