Shelagh Rogers’ Featured Book

Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School

How did we get to where we are now? Until we understand that, our future together as Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples looks uncertain at best…This collection of essays returns us to the proper work of dialogue, answering some questions but inevitably, and necessarily, provoking more. I hope it will prod us to get off our big fat complacencies. We must investigate our own histories, asking questions about the land on which we work and live. What is the history of this land? Who was here before us? How did we come to occupy and define it? What was my family’s relationship to Indigenous peoples?” — Shelagh Rogers

Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation and Residential School (editors 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. Feature 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.

Speaking My Truth: Reflections on Reconciliation is available for free at Indigo or at the Calgary Public Library. The book club edition is also free here.