Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential School

Magic Weapons: Aboriginal Writers Remaking Community after Residential SchoolThe 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

The text is enhanced by glyphs--traditional designs from each Nation--and photographs

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the "Haida manga" of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas

A young Native man discovers the secret to time travel in ancient petroglyphs

She traces the main features of the regional Euro-Canadian culture and shows how this cultural complex is thematically integrated through the idea of the frontier

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and transformative in the new light it sheds on the complex historical processes that converged in the financial debacle of 2008 and 2009

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and demand that we question personal responsibility

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and ritual celebrations of the city's heritage

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