A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut

As told by Nellie Winters

Transcribed and edited by Erica Oberndorfer Illustrated by

Qinuisaarniq (“resiliency”) is a program created to educate Nunavummiut and all Canadians about the history and impacts of residential schools, policies of assimilation, and other colonial acts that affected the Canadian Arctic.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Reflections from them days : a residential school memoir from Nunatsiavut / as told by Nellie Winters ; transcribed and edited by Erica Oberndorfer.

Names: Winters, Nellie, 1938- author.

Identifiers: Canadiana 20200159275 | ISBN 9781774502075 (softcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Winters, Nellie, 1938-—Childhood and youth. | LCSH: Inuit—Newfoundland and Labrador— Labrador—Biography. | LCSH: Inuit children—Education—Newfoundland and Labrador— Labrador. | CSH: Inuit—Newfoundland and Labrador—Labrador—Residential schools. | LCGFT: Autobiographies.

Classification: LCC E96.65.N6 W56 2020 | DDC 371.829/971207182—dc23

ISBN: 978-1-77450-207-5