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• Title:Invasion and resistance : Native perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School / by Celia Haig-Brown Vayro. --
  
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• Author/Creator:Vayro, Celia Haig-Brown, 1947-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Haig-Brown, Celia, 1947-
  Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver, B.C. : University of British Columbia, 1986
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY special collection (non-circulating)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER H35 1986
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER H34 1986
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.3 Missing - 06-29-2018
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--British Columbia.
  Indigenous Peoples--Education--History.
  Secwepemc--Education.
  Indigenous Peoples--Relations with churches--British Columbia.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Kamloops Indian Residential School.
  
• Description:v, 183 leaves : ill. ; 28 cm.
  
• Summary:"Few extensive studies of residential schools in Canada exist. Much of the extant literature dealing with Native education is based on materials written by Euro-Canadians with only minimal involvement of the people of whom they write. The few materials available which discuss residential schools usually present information from the perspective of the government or the missionaries whose policies controlled them. The purpose of this paper is to present Native perspectives of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Thirteen interviews with Native people of the central Interior of British Columbia, former students of the school, form the nucleus of the study. Because so little is written of Native people's experiences and because the interior people traditionally have an oral culture, interviewing was deemed the most appropriate research technique. Through the informants' own words, the experiences of leaving home, of arriving at school, of surviving the daily routines of the school, of resisting the oppressive structure imposed and, finally, of returning home are restructured. Two main concepts, cultural invasion and resistance, are of paramount importance. Informants were selected to represent various time periods of the school's operation." -- from Abstract.
  
• Notes:Thesis (M.A.) - University of British Columbia, 1986.
  Bibliography: leaves 174-179.
  
• Contents:I. Introduction
  Problem statement
  Review of the literature
  II. Methodology
  The reasons
  The methods
  - III. Setting the scene
  The governments
  Missionaries
  The Secwepemc
  IV. From home to school
  At home
  The transition
  V. School life
  The school day
  Extracurricular activities
  Discipline
  Family visits and summer holidays
  VI. The resistance
  VII. Going home
  VIII. Conclusions
  IX. Bibliography
  X. Appendices
  A. Informants
  B. Interview schedule
  C. Map of bands of Shuswap Nation.