A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools 2010 and in doing so offers

and in doing so offers Frank a history he has never known

from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Index and Acknowledgements complete this work

Legal action by the schools’ former students led to the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2008

rather than bringing Indigenous children in to what its planners called the circle of civilization

A Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools 2010 and in doing so offersA Knock on the Door: The Essential History of Residential Schools from the Truth and Reconciliation of Canada is edited & abridged for ease of use by the general public and secondary school students. This 296 page book consists of the TRC text of What We Have Learned: Principles of Truth and Reconciliation as well as shorter versions from TRC executive summary (Introduction, Reconciliation & Legacy chapters). This volume contains the 94 Calls to