Tsqelmucwílc : the Kamloops Indian Residential School - resistance and a reckoning
Record details
- ISBN: 155152905X
- ISBN: 9781551529059
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Physical Description:
287 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
regular print - Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022]
- Copyright: ©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. |
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Topic Heading: | Indigenous collection. |
Available copies
- 20 of 21 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 21 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Smithers Public Library | ANF 371.82997 HAI (Text) | 35101011086498 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
Features the shocking and tragic story of Indigenous erasure and genocide at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada. - Perseus Publishing
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.
âTsquelmucwÃlcâ (pronounced cha-CAL-mux-weel) is a Secwepemc phrase loosely translated as âWe return to being human again.â TsqelmucwÃlc 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. TsqelmucwÃlc includes the original text as well as new material by the original bookâs 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.
Read both within and outside the context of the grim 2021 discoveries, TsqelmucwÃlc is a tragic story in the history of Indigenous peoples of the indignities suffered at the hands of their colonizers, but it is equally a remarkable tale of Indigenous survival, resilience, and courage.
- Perseus Publishing
The shocking and tragic story of Indigenous erasure and genocide at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada.