A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada by Phil Fontaine, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Phil Fontaine, National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation with Michelle St. John (Narrator)

8 hours, 14 minutes first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced

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"It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer." So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and...

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