A Note on the Text Augie and Me: An Introduction, by David Carpenter Map: Sturgeon Landing and other places discussed in this book ONE - School Days, School Days TWO - Hard Times THREE - The Passion of Sister Felicity FOUR - The Loves of Languir and Cameron FIVE - Brotherly Love and the Fatherland SIX - Father Lazzardo among the Children SEVEN - Sister of the Night EIGHT - Lepeigne NINE - Revenge Conclusion Afterword by David Carpenter Postscript by David Carpenter Study Guide Acknowledgements
A retired Cree trapper, Joseph Auguste Merasty attended St. Therese Residential School in Sturgeon Landing, Saskatchewan, from 1935 to 1944. He lived in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. David Carpenter is an award-winning author and editor of eighteen books. He lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
"At 86, Augie Merasty has been a lot of things: Father. Son.
Outdoorsman. Homeless. But now he is a first-time author, and the
voice of a generation of residential-school survivors.... The
Education of Augie Merasty is the tale of a man not only haunted by
his past, but haunted by the fundamental need to tell his own
story... one of the most important titles to be published this
spring." - Globe and Mail
"A sharp-eyed account." - Toronto Star
"Well suited to a teenage audience because of its brevity and
frankness." - Globe and Mail
"Historically significant." - Publishers Weekly
"[Augie] wrote his memoir to show people the unbelievable
atrocities suffered by so many Indigenous people and in the hope
that others would come forward to tell their stories of what
happened in the residential schools." - Eagle Feather News "This
book is so much bigger than its small size. It is a path to
healing. We cannot change history, but we can acknowledge it, learn
about it, and remember it." - Prairies North
" The Education of Augie Merasty might be a small book, but it
carries a punch to it that all Canadian need to read and
understand." - Rabble
"A truly extraordinary memoir by a truly extraordinary man." -
Midwest Book Review
"Carpenter's introduction and afterword... allow us to come to
better understand Augie's 'sometimes chaotic, sometimes heroic
aftermath of his life,' as Carpenter describes his last decade.
Where Augie focuses on physical scars, Carpenter's experiences with
Augie illustrate the long-term impacts on his residential school
experience. And with The Education of Augie Merasty, he helps
Merasty--who could be any number of individuals we each pass on the
street--find his voice." - Active History "Unsettling and profound,
and good." - Blacklock's Reporter
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