Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School

by Celia Haig-Brown

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.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Indigenous History, Canada, Social Justice

173 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 1988

Reviews

[B.E. McLaughlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good depicting of the wide breadth of horrors that were committed at residential schools.

[Allison6876 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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