CANADA
Kingston This Week
By Katrina Geenevasen/Kingston This Week
A local author has written a book about the tragedy of Indian Residential Schools, which saw more than 150,000 First Nations children taken from their families between 1883 and 1996.
“I think that I was fated to the task from early childhood,” said Bob Wells, author of Wawahte. “I grew up in remote Northwestern Ontario, at the time in our history when many people lived as ‘we’ and ‘them.’ As a child, it did not seem fair to me that my friends were being treated differently than I was.”
The book is written in two parts. The first part tells readers about the experiences of three children who attended residential schools. Through the eyes of Esther Faries, Bunny Galvin and Stanley Stephens, readers travel back to a time of forced assimilation.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.