The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

The Education of Augie Merasty: A Residential School Memoir

This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school.

Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis c…

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