The Sleeping Giant Awakens provides a platform for ongoing discussions on the term genocide for understanding the Indian Residential School system as both imperiling prospects for conciliation and providing an important basis for respectful and proactive engagement of Indigenous-settler relations
primarily as subjects for research and sources of data
and sustainability—not as separate concerns
but now she is receiving threatening messages on her answering machine
the Anishinaabeg were often the ones doing the exploiting
Following the Good River Sasquatch The Sleeping Giant Awakens providesFollowing the Good River: The Life and Times of Wa'xaid is written by Briony Penn with Cecil Paul, Waxaid, a respected elder, activist and orator, and one of the last fluent speakers of his peoples language. Cecil Paul was born in 1931 in the Kitlope and raised on fishing, hunting, trapping and gathering. At the age of 10 he was torn from his family and placed in a residential school run by the United Church of Canada at Port Alberni, on Vancouver