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list price: $19.95
edition:Paperback
category: Social Science
published: Apr 1988
ISBN:9780889781894
publisher:
Arsenal Pulp Press
Description
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. Interviews with thirteen Natives, all former residents of KIRS, form the nucleus of the book, a frank depiction of school life, and a telling account of the system's oppressive environment which sought to stifle Native culture.
Winner of the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize (BC Book Prize) in 1989.
Now in its 9th printing.
About the Author
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 SchoolâResistance 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.
Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age:
- 14
- Grade:
- 9
Awards
- Winner, Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Editorial Review
Demonstrates that the experiences of the past, however painful, are valuable for future generations.
-Northeast Indian
— Northeast Indian
