Indian School Days
Indian School Days is the humorous bittersweet authobiography of Basil Johnston, a native Ojibway, who was taken from his family at age 10 and placed in a "residential" school in northern Ontario The book opens in when the feared Indian agent visits Johnston's family and removes him and his four-year-old sister to St. Peter Claver's School, a boarding school run by Jesuit priests at Spanish, 75 miles from Sudbury, Ontario. In describing the years that follow, Basil Johnston creates marvelous portraits of the young Indian boys as they struggle to adapt to a harsh and strange environment, and of their Jesuit teachers, whose flashes of humour occasionally break through the discipline with which the institution is run.
Basil Johnston
Culture, Heritage and Spirituality ()
Basil Johnston is a highly respected author, storyteller and preserver of the Anishnaabe language. He has written 15 books in English and five in Ojibway, as well as numerous articles that have been published in newspapers, anthologies and periodicals. He is a strong proponent that the key to understanding culture is language and has been tireless in his efforts to promote the Anishnaabe language and culture. So tireless, that he developed audio language programs on cassette and CD and continues to teach Anishnaabe language classes to youth and adults. At a time when indigenous languages stand in jeopardy, Mr. Johnston&#;s meticulous work to retrieve, maintain and document the Ojibway language has helped to stem the threat of extinction. In addition to his prolific writing career, Mr. Johnston worked at the Royal Ontario Museum from to in the Department of Ethnology. He was a history teacher at a high school in North York and a lecturer at various universities and colleges, including Trent and the University of Saskatchewan. He is a renowned storyteller, possessed with the oratorical gift of the ancestors who can enthra
Deemed “authentic”: Basil H. Johnston
Basil H. Johnston (Anishinaabe) (–) was born on the Parry Island Indian Reserve in Ontario, and is a member of the Cape Croker First Nation (Neyaashiinigmiing), where he currently resides. Educated in reserve schools at Cape Croker and Spanish, Ontario, Johnston earned a B.A. with Honours from Loyola College in Montreal, and completed a secondary school teaching certificate at the Ontario College of Education. He taught high school in North York, Ontario from to , before taking a position in the Ethnology Department of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. He remained at the ROM until , to initiate a Native approach to teaching at the museum, and to record and celebrate Ojibway (Anishinaabe) heritage, especially language and mythology. He has lectured at a number of universities, including the University of Saskatchewan and Trent University. Biography He attended elementary school at the Cape Croker Indian Reserve school until the age of 10, after which he attended St. Peter Claver's Indian Residential School in Spanish, Ontario. He left school for a time before finishing the ninth grade, but soon learned that it would be difficult to support himself without further education. In the meantime, St. Peter Claver's had gained a new Father Superior who reorganized the school as Garnier Residential School for Indian Boys to deliver a secondary school education, instead of as a trade school. In , Johnston graduated valedictorian from Garnier and then attended Loyola College in Montreal where he graduated with honors, earning a B.A. in An account of his school years can be read in Indian School Days. From through , Basil Johnston was employed by the Toronto Board of Trade. He received his Secondary School Teaching Certificate from the Ontario College of Education in , and took a position teaching history at the Earl Haig Secondary School in North York until He then joined the Ethnology Department of the Royal Ontario Museum where he worked for the next 25 years with a mandate to record
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Johnston has been a highly respected writer, storyteller, language teacher, and scholar since his first writings were published in His numerous short stories, essays, articles, and poems have appeared in several Aboriginal publications, as well as The Educational Courier, Canadian Fiction
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