Truth

Foreword by Senator Mary Jane McCallum and Lorraine Daniels, executive director of the National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada

How would Canada's history of residential school injustice come to life if you could sit with a Survivor and hear their personal story? How could your mind be opened?

Truth: Stories of Residential School Survivors from Long Plain First Nation offers this intimacy. These first-person accounts from twelve residential school Survivors detail not only the experiences of residential school, but what life was like before, and navigating the complex life after. Five additional testimonies from 2002 of deceased Survivors (related to book participants) offer a multi-generational perspective.

The stories in this book vividly illustrate abuse, community fracture, family breakdown, cultural obliteration, and intergenerational trauma, but also the inspiring strength of the human spirit that enables healing, hope and even forgiveness.