Description:
In this ground-breaking book, Crystal Gail Fraser draws on Gwich'in concepts of individual and collective fortitude to illuminate student experiences in northern residential schools. Led by survivor testimony, Fraser shows how both students and their parents played a role in changing the system to protect and empower their communities.
Brief description:
Crystal Gail Fraser is Gwichyà Gwich'in and has Scottish and English ancestry. Originally from Inuvik and Dachan Choo Gę̀hnjik (Tree River), Northwest Territories, Crystal works as a historian and Indigenous studies scholar in the amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) region, on Treaty 6 and Métis Lands.
Review Quotes:
"Fraser's work succeeds in bringing a humanizing sensibility to historical processes in conscious alignment with Dian Million's notion of a felt archive. This book is a sweeping indictment of Canada's education policies in the North and stands as a refutation of the paternalistic assumption that Northern Indigenous communities should not, or could not, direct their own children's education. Crystal Fraser's voice is an important one."
--Alexandra Giancarlo "JACANZS"