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It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer. So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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      Publisher: MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press
      Publication Date: 12/30/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780887557859, 978-0887557859
      ISBN10: 0887557856

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      Book Synopsis
      It can start with a knock on the door one morning. It is the local Indian agent, or the parish priest, or, perhaps, a Mounted Police officer. So began the school experience of many Indigenous children in Canada for more than a hundred years, and so begins the history of residential schools prepared by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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