My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime of hell / / Arthur Bear Chief.

• Superior document: Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
• VerfasserIn: Bear Chief, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton, Alberta : : AU Press,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Our lives--diary, memoir, and letters.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (99 pages)

Arthur Bear Chief suffered both sexual and psychological abuse during his time at Old Sun Residential school in Gleichen on the Siksika Nation. <EM>My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell</EM> is a of chronological vignettes that depict the punishment, cruelty, and injustice that Arthur endured at Old Sun and then later relived in the traumatic process of retelling his story in connection with a complicated claims procedure. Late in life, after working for both the provincial and federal government, Arthur returned home to Gleichen. It was there that he began to reconnect with Blackfoot language and culture and to write his story.

Table of Contents

Preface / Judy Bedford -- My decade at Old Sun, my lifetime of hell -- Afterword: The burden of reconciliation / Frits Pannekoek -- Appendix A: Legal correspondence -- Appendix B: Letters of apology.