We welcome you to the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.

The records on our site emerge from the cultural and physical genocide that the Canadian government and churches conducted through the Indian Residential School System, including the ongoing impacts.

Bearing witness to these records may become overwhelming. If you are a Survivor or an Intergenerational Survivor and would like support, you can call the 24-hour National Indian Residential School Crisis Line at:

1-866-925-4419

Please click the button below for other cultural and mental health resources.

Wellness Resources
Home > Find > Xwist memin kin "I want to go home" : Memories of Kamloop...
Image courtesy of Mary Jane Joe
Image courtesy of Mary Jane Joe

Xwist memin kin "I want to go home" : Memories of Kamloops residential school and Joeyaska Ranch
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

2021
Book > Memoir
Related School
Kamloops (BC)
Creators
Joe, Mary Jane
Description
Personal memories of people, routines, rules and education at an Indian residential school are outlined. It is a very different picture when compared with home life and family visits. The Government of Canada intended to separate children from parents, traditions, language and spiritual beliefs, but these were the very things that saved and nurtured Nk'xetko, Mary Jane Joe.

"By describing my twelve years of suffering at the school, year by year and grade by grade I realized that the strengths that held me together and gave me the courage to survive and finish school were the teachings of my parents and grandmother. I never said thank you to them. They have passed away but their love and resilience live on. This book is a belated kwuks chemxw, thank you my dear family."
Language
English

Subjects

Joe, Mary Jane.

More Information

Alternate Title(s)
Memories of Kamloops residential school and Joeyaska Ranch
Holding Library
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia
ISBN
9780228850250; 0228850258
Statement of Responsibility
Mary Jane Joe.
Publication Information
Victoria : Tellwell Talent
Physical Description
101 pages : photographs ; 23 cm
Notes
Includes glossary.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Family Life At Joeyaska Ranch -- The Summer Before School - 1957 -- Kamloops Indian Residential School -- At Home In Joeyaska - Summer 1958 -- Grade Two At School - 1958 -- Grade Three At School - 1959 -- Christmas Holidays At Home In Joeyaska - 1959 -- Life At School -- Folk Dancing -- Home At Easter - 1960 -- Spring At School -- At Home With My Brother Austin - Summer 1960 -- Summer At School - 1960 -- Grade Four At School - 1960 -- Mom's Sewing Machine -- Boy Trouble At School -- Grade Five At School - 1961 -- Memories Of My Dad -- Summer - 1961 -- Grade Six At School - 1962 -- Summer At Home - 1963 -- Grade Seven At School - 1963 -- Summer - 1964 -- Grade Eight At School - 1964 -- Summer - 1965 -- Grade Nine At School - 1965 -- New Years Eve At Home -- Sister Beverly Mitchell -- Grade Ten At School - 1966 -- Extra Curricular Activities At School -- Summer At Home - 1967 -- Grade Eleven At School - 1967 -- Summer At Home - 1968 -- Grade Twelve At School - 1968 -- My Last Easter At Home - 1969 -- The Final Stretch -- Graduation - 1969 -- A Brief History Of Residential Schools -- Ways Of Healing.
Permalink

Discussion

Do you have a story to contribute related to these records or a comment about this item?

Related

People/Organizations

TOP