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Pelq'ilc (Coming home)
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

Video > Documentary
Contributors
Haig-Brown, Celia; Haig-Brown, Helen
Description
"Focuses on the place of education in renewing Indigenous culture and tradition. The film is part of a larger Social Science and Humanities Council funded study and is based on interviews with the children and grandchildren of residential school survivors first interviewed for a 1986 study done by Celia Haig-Brown. The offspring are actively engaging in regenerative educational initiatives such as art, language immersion schools, traditional wilderness camps and filmmaking. Helen Haig-Brown, Celia's niece and the daughter of one of the initial residential school survivors interviewed, is not only a participant and co-investigator in the project but the film's director and co-writer. The research explores... the place of education in renewing culture and language. In this case, education refers to both formal schooling and other less direct approaches to teaching and learning. Specifically, the guiding question is: What is the role of education in the regeneration of Aboriginal/First Nations cultures and languages? How does it serve the re-creation of Indigenous knowledges in contemporary contexts?"

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Alternate Title(s)
Coming home
Statement of Responsibility
a collaborative project by Celia Haig-Brown and Helen Haig-Brown.
Publication Information
Toronto : V Tape
Physical Description
1 videodisc (33 min.) : sd., col. 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Originally produced in 2007.
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