Publisher's Synopsis
Wawahte is a non-fiction book about three Aboriginal children born in the 1930's. Their experiences were much the same as it was for more than 150,000 Aboriginal children who, between 1883 and 1996, were forced to attend 130 residential schools and equally demeaning day schooling in Canada. This book also includes historical background, a list of the Indian Residential Schools, and the texts of formal apologies from the government of Canada, the Anglican Church of Canada, The Roman Catholic Church, the Presbyterian Church of Canada, and The United Church of Canada, as well as selected excerpts from the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It also includes The Ten Native American Commandments and discussion. points.
