Description
In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe (Fort Good Hope) in the Northwest Territories just south of the Arctic Circle. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school--run by the Roman Catholic Church in collusion with the Government of Canada--three hundred kilometres away. Over the next twelve years, the three residential schools Mountain was forced to attend systematically worked to erase his language and culture, the very roots of his identity.
While reconnecting to that which had been taken from him, he had a disturbing and painful revelation of the bitter depths of colonialism and its legacy of cultural genocide. Canada has its own holocaust, Mountain argues.
As a celebrated artist and social activist today, Mountain shares this moving, personal story of healing and the reclamation of his Dene identity.
Author: Antoine Mountain
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Published: 06/11/2019
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.90w x 1.60d
ISBN13: 9781927366806
ISBN10: 1927366801
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Social Science | Indigenous Studies
- Biography & Autobiography | Indigenous