Titre:
They called me number one : secrets and survival at an Indian residential school
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Sommaire:
Like Native children forced by law to attend schools across Canada and the United States, Sellars and other students of St. Joseph's Mission were allowed home only for two months in the summer and for two weeks at Christmas. The rest of the year they lived, worked, and studied at the school. St. Joseph's⛛ More...
Date de publication comme intervalle:
2013
Description matérielle:
xx, 227 pages. : illustrations, map, geneal. table ; 21 cm
Table des matières:
Foreward / Hemas Kla-Lee-Lee-Kla (Chief Bill Wilson) -- Preface -- What pain have you suffered? -- Chapter 1. My grandmother and others before me -- Chapter 2. Sardis hospital = loneliness -- Chapter 3. St. Joseph's Mission = prison [Williams Lake Indian Residential School, B.C. (Williams Lake Industrial School) (Cariboo, British Columbia) -- Chapter 4. I got religion but what did it mean? -- Chapter 5. The body was no temple -- Chapter 6. A few good memories -- Chapter 7. Pain, bullying, but also pleasure -- Chapter 8. Home sweet home -- Chapter 9. Summer of '67 -- Chapter 10. Life on the reserve -- Chapter 11. One day I realized I had survived -- Chapter 12. Becoming a leader -- Chapter 13. Going to university -- Chapter 14. Final thoughts -- Afterword / Wendy Wickwire.
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Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780889227415
Informations de publication:
Vancouver : Talonbooks, 2013.
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