CANADA
Brantford Expositor
By Michael-Allan Marion, Brantford Expositor
Friday, January 9, 2015
It took Larry Loyie 21 years to research completely the ordeal he went through as a native student in a residential school — and the return to class in middle age for the education he never got there — to be able to write the book he long had in mind.
Loyie’s determination and talent inspired Constance Brissenden and Wayne K. Spear to join him in turning out Residential Schools, With the Words and Images of Survivors, a national history that is going out to schools and bookshelves across Canada.
Their project so impressed multimedia producer Jeff Burnham that he made the book the first publication launched by Indigenous Education Press and GoodMinds.com.
“The residential schools are still a hidden history,” Loyie said with Brissenden and Burham beside him during a launch for the book at the offices of Indigenous Press Education at 188 Mohawk Street.
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