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Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School - resistance and a reckoning  Cover Image Book Book

Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School - resistance and a reckoning / Celia Haig-Brown, Garry Gottfriedson, Randy Fred, and the KIRS survivors.

Summary:

In May 2021, the world was shocked by news of the detection of 215 unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) in British Columbia. Ground-penetrating radar confirmed the deaths of students as young as three in the infamous residential school system, which systematically removed children from their families and brought them to the schools. At these Christian-run, government-supported institutions, they were subjected to physical, mental, and sexual abuse while their Indigenous languages and traditions were stifled and denounced. ''Tsquelmucwilc'' (pronounced cha-CAL-mux-weel) is a Secwepemc phrase loosely translated as ''We return to being human again.'' Tsqelmucwilc is the story of those who survived the Kamloops Indian Residential School, based on the 1988 book Resistance and Renewal, a groundbreaking history of the school - and the first book on residential schools ever published in Canada.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781551529059
  • ISBN: 155152905X
  • Physical Description: 287 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Previously published under title: Resistance and renewal : surviving the Indian residential school.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Indigenous peoples > British Columbia > Kamloops > Residential schools.
Indigenous peoples > Education > British Columbia > Kamloops.
Indigenous peoples > Cultural assimilation > British Columbia.
Indigenous peoples > British Columbia > Social conditions.
Off-reservation boarding schools > British Columbia > Kamloops.
Secwepemc > British Columbia > Education.
Kamloops (B.C.)
Topic Heading: Indigenous.
First Nations Canada.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at University College of the North Libraries.

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The Pas Campus Library E 96.6 .K34 H35 2022 (Text) 58500001156975 Stacks Volume hold Available -


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