From Bear Rock Mountain: The Life and Times of a Dene Residential School Survivor

by Antoine Mountain

Overview

In 1949, Antoine Mountain was born on the land near Radelie Koe (Fort Good Hope) in the Northwest Territories just south of the Arctic Circle. At the tender age of seven, he was stolen away from his home and sent to a residential school—run by the Roman Catholic Church in collusion with the Government of Canada—three hundred kilometres away. Over the next twelve years, the three residential schools Mountain was forced to attend systematically worked to erase his language and culture, the very roots of his identity.

While reconnecting to that which had been taken from him, he had a disturbing and painful revelation of the bitter depths of colonialism and its legacy of cultural genocide. Canada has its own holocaust, Mountain argues.

As a celebrated artist and social activist today, Mountain shares this moving, personal story of healing and the reclamation of his Dene identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781927366806
Publisher:	Heritage Group Distribution
Publication date:	06/11/2019
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Antoine Mountain has received many awards for his art, community activism, and athletic achievement—including the NWT Premier's Award, the Queen's Jubilee Commemorative Medal, the Tom Longboat Award—and was recently inducted in the NWT Sport Hall of Fame. Mountain is currently completing a PhD in Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario but will always call Radelie Koe (Fort Good Hope), Northwest Territories home. Find out more at amountainarts.com.

Table of Contents

Foreword 1

Prologue 5

Part I Another Lost Generation -1949-69 11

Part II Social Awakenings -1969-77 113

Part III Rough Waters, Tippy Canoe -1978-92 183

Part IV A New Drum Shines Forth -1992 to Present 243

Epilogue 350

Acknowledgments 354

In Memoriam 356

Glossary 357

Notes 364

Sources 366