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.
- ISBN10 0889773688
- ISBN13 9780889773684
- Publish Date 8 February 2015
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 April 2017
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of Regina Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 105
- Language English