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Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and a reckoning / Celia Haig-Brown, Garry Gottfriedson, Randy Fred, and the KIRS survivors.
TITLE:
Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School--resistance and a reckoning / Celia Haig-Brown, Garry Gottfriedson, Randy Fred, and the KIRS survivors.
Former Title:
Resistance and renewal : surviving the Indian residential school
Publication Date:
2022
Publication Information:
Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press,
Physical Description:
287 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
In May 2021, the world was shocked by the news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia, Canada. Ground-penetrating radar established the deaths of students as young as three in the infamous residential school system, where children were systematically removed from their families and brought to the schools. At these Christian-run and government-supported institutions, they were subjected to physical, mental and sexual abuse while their Indigenous languages and traditions were stifled and denounced. The egregious abuses suffered at residential schools everywhere created a multi-generational legacy of trauma for those who survived and, as the 2021 discoveries confirmed, death for too many. TsqelmucwÔilc is the story of those who survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School, based on the book Resistance and Renewal, a groundbreaking history of the school published in 1988―the first book on residential schools ever published in Canada. TsqelmucwÔilc includes the original text as well as new material by the original book’s author, Celia Haig-Brown; essays by Secwepemc poet and KIRS survivor Garry Gottfriedson and Nuu-Chah-Nulth elder and residential school survivor Randy Fred; and first-hand reminiscences by other survivors of KIRS as well as their children on their experience of KIRS and the impact of their residential school trauma throughout their lives.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781551529059
General Note:
Previously published under title: Resistance and renewal : surviving the Indian residential school.