What We Learned: Two Generations Reflect on Tsimshian Education and the Day Schools

by Helen Raptis

Book Overview

The legacy of residential schools has haunted Canadians, 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 contemporary discussions of Indigenous schooling...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774830204
• ISBN13: 9780774830201
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"