14 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis women from across Canada comment on their experiences at residential schools. Several are writers and most are educators but all believe that Aboriginal People must in the future continue to control their children's education. A celebration of the resistance, resilience and achievements of Native women demonstrating that there can be a good life after residential school. Women included are Eleanor Brass, Ida Wasacase, Rita Joe, Alice French, Sister Dorothy Moore, Shirley Stirling, Marjorie Gould, Doris Pratt, Edith Dalla Costa, Bernice Touchie, Mary Cardinal Collins, Sara Sabourin, Beverly Sabourin and Marlene Starr.