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Indian School Road book launch and discussion
7:00pm
- 9:00pm
Monday September 22 2014
All are welcome to help us launch Indian School Road: Legacies of the Shubenacadie Residential School by journalist Chris Benjamin.
It’s a sensitive topic, but one that needs to be discussed and brought into the public eye. Join Chris and Daniel Paul (author of We Were Not the Savages) along with some survivors from the residential school system. There will be a short reading, a presentation, and a Q&A, followed by light refreshments, and an opportunity to buy a copy of Chris’s book. Everyone is welcome.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first time. Benjamin integrates research, interviews, and testimonies to guide readers through the varied experiences of students, principals, and teachers over the school’s nearly forty years of operation (1930–1967) and beyond.
Exposing the raw wounds of truth and reconciliation as well as the struggle for an inclusive Mi’kmaw education system, Indian School Road is a comprehensive and compassionate narrative history of the school that uneducated hundreds of Aboriginal children.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Chris Benjamin has studied, reported, and acted on environmental issues since the late 90s. He is currently the “Sustainable City” columnist for The Coast, Halifax’s independent weekly newspaper, and is the author of a novel, Drive-by Saviours, which was long-listed for the 2011 Canada Reads competition and for the 2011 ReLit Award for Best Novel from a Canadian Independent Press. His (then un-published) manuscript for Indian School Road won the 2013 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award. He lives in Halifax.
Topics: Indigenous
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