Speaking My Truth

edited by Shelagh Rogers et al

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(Aboriginal Healing Foundation)

Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School (AHF 2013, eds. Shelagh Rogers, Mike DeGagné, Jonathan Dewar, Glen Lowry) is a collection of stories that looks at the history of Residential School and possibilities for reconciliation from the perspective First Nation, Inuit and Metis peoples.
Featuring first-person accounts from survivors, intergenerational survivors, this new scholastic edition of Speaking My Truth builds seeks to provide students and educators with a resource for generating understanding and much-needed debate around difficult questions of Reconciliation among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in Canada.
Speaking My Truth has been selected from the Aboriginal Healing Foundation's (AHF) three-volume Truth and Reconciliation series, which includes Vol I From Truth to Reconciliation, Vol II Response, Responsibility, and Renewal, and Vol III Cultivating Canada. (From Aboriginal Healing Foundation)
Shelagh Rogers is a Canadian broadcast journalist based in British Columbia. She is the host and producer of CBC Radio's The Next Chapter, and chancellor of the University of Victoria.
Mike DeGagné is the president and vice chancellor of Yukon University and the president and CEO of Indspire, Canada's largest Indigenous-led and Indigenous-focused charity. He is an Ojibway from the Animakee Wa Zhing 37 First Nation.
Jonathan Dewar, PhD, has been recognized as a leader in healing and reconciliation and Indigenous health and well-being education, policy and research. He is of mixed heritage, descended from Huron-Wendat, Scottish, and French Canadian grandparents with an academic background in Indigenous arts and literatures and Indigenous Studies.
Glen Lowry is Vancouver-​based writer, educator and editor.