In Agnes Grant's auspicious fiction debut, she presents a colorful and compelling narrative of three women on the frontier of northern Saskatchewan: Rita, a Cree, whose ancestors were disrupted by the western expansion of European settlement; Hanya, a Ukrainian, who emigrated to western Canada with her husband; and Elizabeth, a German-speaking Mennonite girl, who was engaged to be married when World War I and the Russian Revolution exploded across the land. From the Battleford area of nineteenth-century Saskatchewan through the Great Depression and finally, to a fateful time in 1970 when all three women await death in a hospital room, May There Be No Sadness of Farewell paints a vivid prose portrait of a fascinating period in Canadian history.

May There Be No Sadness of Farewell

Literature & Fiction

Grant, Agnes

Genre Fiction

Vantage Press

Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature

Religion & Spirituality

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

Pemmican Pubns

When residential schools opened in the 1830s, First Nations envisioned their own teachers, ministers, and interpreters. Instead, students were regularly forced to renounce their cultures and languages and some were subjected to degradations and abuses that left severe emotional scars for generations. 
 In Finding My Talk, fourteen aboriginal women who attended residential schools, or were affected by them, reflect on their experiences. They describe their years in residential schools across Canada and how they overcame tremendous obstacles to become strong and independent members of aboriginal cultures and valuable members of Canadian society. 
 Biographies include: 
<li> Eleanor Brass, Journalist, Plains Cree, Saskatchewan</li> <li> Rita Joe, Poet/Writer, Mi'kmaq, Nova Scotia</li> <li> Alice French, Writer, Inuit, Northwest Territories</li> <li> Shirley Sterling, School Administrator/Storyteller, Nlakapmux, British Columbia</li> <li> Doris Pratt, Education Administrator/Language Specialist, Dakota, Manitoba</li> <li> Edith Dalla Costa, School Counsellor, Woodland Cree, Alberta</li> <li> Sara Sabourin, Community Worker, Ojibway, Ontario. </li> Dr. Agnes Grant worked with the Native Teacher Training programs at Brandon University, Manitoba, for thirty years. As an administrator and professor, she spent much of her time in remote communities. Dr. Grant is the author of No End of Grief: Indian Residential Schools in Canada and three other books. She lives in Winnipeg.

Finding My Talk: How Fourteen Canadian Native Women Reclaimed their Lives after Residential School

History

Americas

Fifth House Publishers

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