Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School ubc-pr A conversation between two tricksters

A conversation between two tricksters

Contributing Artists Chad Leon Darrell Thorne Doug Horne Doug LaFortune Erica Joseph Francis Horne Sr

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The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history

Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School ubc-pr A conversation between two trickstersThe legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple many Native communities. Magic Weapons is the first major survey of Indigenous writings on the residential school system, and provides groundbreaking readings of life writings by Rita Joe (Mikmaq) and Anthony Apakark Thrasher (Inuit) as well as in depth