Grad publishes article on Residential Schools

In a recently published article, Alumnae Dawn Lamothe, BA’13, shares her family’s story of the intergenerational effects of Indian Residential schooling, including her experience of growing up in foster care.Lamothe’s family’s resilience, survival and re-connection to Aboriginal culture are profiled in this moving and thoughtful engagement with the unresolved effects in our society of intergenerational trauma.
The article can be found at the Society for Building a Healthier Kugluktuk.
Lamothe’s article is excerpted from her Nipissing University honours thesis, written under the supervision of Dr. Wendy Peters in the Gender Equality and Social Justice program.  It also relates very directly to the book selected for this year’sCommon Book Common Ground Program,Speaking My Truth.