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My read for this Canada Day afternoon.

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Short but powerful. As devastating as one expects a residential school memoir to be, written in a less expected way.

RIP. I just read his memoir a month or so ago and am so glad he lived long enough to see it published. ❤
https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/remembering-augie-merasty-a-memoi...

Augie Merasty was 5 years old in 1935, the year he began attending a residential school in northern Saskatchewan. His memories of the years he spent there include some kindness and a lot of abuse. Merasty has a gift for storytelling, heartbreaking as it is to read.
Cree #indigenousvoices #nativebooks

There had been some break-ins at his cabin, and one of the culprits was a bear that laid waste to the cabin's interior, ate his food and part of his manuscript.
"A bear ate your manuscript?"
"Oh yeah, Davey. A big black bear."

-from the introduction by David Carpenter

Now in his late 80s, Auguste Merasty was 5 when he entered a residential school for indigenous kids in northern Saskatchewan. During his years there he endured and witnessed horrific abuse and racism, all sanctioned by the church and the government. The point of the schools was to teach the Indian out of the kids, assimilate them. Canada's shame. My former English prof, David Carpenter, helped him write these important memoirs. Heartbreaking.

This will be the last quote from this book for a while - these are heartbreaking.

Good background article on this important memoir I just started reading this morning.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/residential-school-survivors...

I am only five pages in and I'm in tears.

I can't wait to read this. The residential schools for indigenous peoples is a dark, dark stain on Canada's history and culture. The ghost writer-editor, David Carpenter, was one of my English profs back in the day.

It's -20 outside so a good day to stay home and #read this. Unfortunately I have to go to work! I'll be coming straight home to dive back in thou. #bookstagram #HeartbreakingAndImportant #TheEducationOfAugieMerasty #canadian #canadianhistory #ResidentialSchool #heartbreaking

The education of Augie Merasty is a heavier read, but it's also a great one. It's short, but it paints a clear picture of what at least some Canadian residential school children exoerienced in the 1930s and 1940s. #Nonfiction #Canadian

Continuing #Education. A small #book with a powerful #punch. #TheEducationOfAugieMerasty #residentialschool #CanadianHistory #blackspot #bookstagram #LitsyFeature #Aboriginalstories #Native #AugieMerasty