This important and timely book is a balance of the most gruesome elements of assimilation: church-run schools, the child welfare system, survivors of sexual abuse, and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome counter-balanced against heroic stories of children who survived, fought back, and found their way home.

Harrrowing stories are presented wherever possible in the first person, by Fournier, a journalist, and Cree, a B.C native spokesperson and activist, and a stolen child himself. The final message is optimistic, suggesting that redress and reconciliation could enrich the entire country by creating healthy aboriginal communities.

Suzanne Fournier is a journalist who has been working with and writing about First Nations for over forty years. She was a reporter with the Vancouver Province for thirty-five years and her work has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean's Magazine, the Toronto Star and other Canadian magazines and newspapers. Fournier has also appeared on CBC radio and television, and has contributed to US and German documentary television programs. She co-authored Stolen from Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities, which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1998. She divides her time between Galiano Island and Vancouver, BC.

Suzanne Fournier's profile page

Ernie Crey's profile page

David Neel's profile page

• Winner, Hubert-Evans Prize for Non-Ficiton