From Home to School

At Home; The Transition

From: Resistance and Renewal

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This chapter narrates the disruption that the residential schools posed in the lives of the Natives. The author juxtapositions the life at school versus that life before school for the Native children. Highlighting the first-hand account of the children, the author throws light on the painful process of acclimatizing the Natives to colonial way of living.

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Celia Haig-Brown

Celia Haig-Brown is an educator and the author of Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School, winner of a BC Book Prize in 1989. She is the associate vice president of research at Toronto's York University as well as a professor in the Faculty of Education.