My inspiration for writing the Matawapit Family Series came from the many talks I had with my Dad, who attended two. The purpose of these schools was to assimilate Canada’s First People into Western society. The schools had a devastating impact on the aboriginal population. The Matawapit Family Series touches on the intergenerational trauma the …
My grandfather, grandmother, father, aunts, and uncles were forced to attend these institutions devised by the federal government and run by Christian churches to assimilate Indigenous people into Western culture. These schools started after 1880 with the last one closing in 1996. To understand this period in Canadian History, I highly recommend A Knock on …
Maggie Blackbird 