Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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