Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School

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arsenal pulp press, 1988 - Education - 164 pages
One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in the British Columbia interior.
 

Contents

PREFACE
9
FOREWORD
15
SETTING THE SCENE
27
FROM HOME TO SCHOOL
39
SCHOOL LIFE
58
THE RESISTANCE
98
13
110
EPILOGUE
126
APPENDICES
141
B Methodology
149
Participants
156
BIBLIOGRAPHY
163
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Celia Haig-Brown is an educator and the author of the 1988 Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prizes). The book will be published in a new edition in fall 2022 as Tsqelmucwilc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School?Resistance and a Reckoning. Her other books include Taking Control: Power and Contradiction and With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada (both UBC Press). Recently, she has turned to documentary film and has been shown at the Smithsonian Film Festival in New York and the Irving International Film Festival in California.

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