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Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

Children of the Broken Treaty: Canada's Lost Promise and One Girl's Dream

Angus, Charlie

Paperback

General EducationIndigenous StudiesSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0889774978
ISBN13: 9780889774971
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Published: Oct 21 2017
Pages: 372
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A Quill & Quire and Hill Times Book of the Year

WINNER of the Ontario History and Social Sciences Teacher's Award

Children of the Broken Treaty exposes a system of apartheid in Canada that led to the largest youth-driven human rights movement in the country's history. The movement was inspired by Shannen Koostachin, a young Cree woman whom George Stroumboulopoulos named as one of five teenage girls who kicked ass in history.

All Shannen wanted was a decent education. She found an ally in Charlie Angus, who had no idea she was going to change his life and inspire others to change the country.

Based on extensive documentation assembled from Freedom of Information requests, Angus establishes a dark, unbroken line that extends from Sir John A. Macdonald's time to today. He provides chilling insight into how Canada--through breaches of treaties, broken promises, and callous neglect--deliberately denied Indigenous children their basic human rights.

In this new edition of Charlie Angus's award-winning and bestselling book, he brings us up-to-date on the unrelenting epidemic of youth suicides in Indigenous communities, the Thunder Bay inquiry into the shocking deaths of young people there, the powerful impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's final report, and how the Trudeau government's commitment to Indigenous communities continues to be stymied by decades-old policy roadblocks.

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