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"Indian School Days" offers a detailed record of the Garnier Residential School for Indian Boys in Canada. The book explores the educational practices, social conditions, and living arrangements for Ojibwa Indians and other Native peoples. Through a biographical lens, it examines how the school shaped the lives of its students and reflects on broader ethnic and educational contexts of the period.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Autobiography
Authors: Basil Johnston
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