Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School
Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver BC, 1988, 1991.
Resistance and renewal is a revealing and disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, and a more general study of the tragic phenomenon of residential schools in Canada. Thirteen interviews with Native people, all former students of K.I.R.S., form the nucleus of the book - a frank depiction of various aspects of school life, and a telling account of the system's oppressive environment which effectively sought to stifle Native culture.
Winner, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Contents:
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
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