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What we learned : two generations reflect on Tsimshian education and the day schools / Helen Raptis with members of the Tsimshian Nation ; the members of the Tsimshian Nation are Mildred Roberts, Wally Miller, Sam Lockerby, Verna Inkster, Clifford Bolton, Harvey Wing, Charlotte Guno, Don Roberts Junior, Steve Roberts, Richard Roberts, Carol Sam, and Jim Roberts.

Summary:

"The legacy of residential schools has haunted Canadians in recent years, yet little is known about the day and public schools where most Indigenous children were sent to be educated. In What We Learned, two generations of Tsimshian students--elders born in the 1930s and 1940s and middle-aged adults born in the 1950s and 1960s--add their recollections of attending day schools in northwestern British Columbia to the contemporary discussions of Indigenous schooling in Canada. Their stories also invite readers to consider traditional Indigenous views of education that conceive of learning as a lifelong experience that takes place across multiple contexts."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780774830195
ISBN: 9780774830201
Physical Description: xiii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Vancouver ; UBC Press, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-194) and index
Formatted Contents Note:	A class list and a puzzle : researching Indigenous education -- Indigenous schooling as assimilation : from segregation to integration -- Tsimshian education versus Western-style schooling -- Walking on two paths -- education and schooling at Port Essington among the pre-1950s generation -- Buried seeds taking root " dispossession and resurgence at Terrace among the post-1950s generation -- Stability and change -- education and schoolng across time and place -- Epilogue.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.