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Going Home
From: Resistance and Renewal
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Based on the study of survivors, the author talks about the alcoholism and the suicide statistics, the suffering and pain of many who attended the school and conversely to the strength of those survivors. The study participants who were subjected to a massive onslaught against their culture and all it stood for have—in a demonstration of the strength of the human spirit—grown, changed, developed and at the same time remained conscious of their ancestry. The people who attended K.I.R.S. were indubitably changed by their experience. However, neither government policy nor missionary goal to assimilate the Indians was successful. Through pain, hunger, cold, and corporal punishment, the Native peoples managed to remain their ancestors’ children and understood the importance of being Native as an irrepressible part of life.
Contributors
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.
