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Resistance and renewal : surviving the Indian residential school
Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

1988

Book > Interviews

Related School

Kamloops (BC)

Creators

Haig-Brown, Celia

Description

""The purpose of this book is primarily to present Native perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, and to provide a limited overview of how Native education has evolved. Thirteen interviews with Native people of the central Interior of British Columbia, former students of the school, form the nucleus of this study" (Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, pg. 25).

Themes

Survivor Voices, Healing, Advocacy and the Settlement Agreement (narrative thread)

Response, resistance & survival (themes)

Daily life (themes)

People > Students (themes)

Subjects

Kamloops Indian Residential School.

More Information

Holding Library

Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia

ISBN

0889781893; 9780889781894

Statement of Responsibility

Celia Haig-Brown.

Edition

[Updated ed.]

Publication Information

Vancouver BC. : Arsenal Pulp Press

Physical Description

171 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm

Notes

"Includes a new preface by the author"--[p.9-11] Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-167) and index.

I. Setting the scene -- The governments -- Missionaries -- The Secwepemc -- II. From home to school -- At home -- The transition -- III. School life -- The school day -- Extracurricular activities -- Discipline -- Family visits and summer holidays -- IV. The resistance -- V. Going home -- VI. Epilogue -- Appendices -- A. Problem and literature review -- B. Methodology -- C. Participants -- D. Interview schedule -- E. Map of bands of Shuswap Nation -- F. Study notes.