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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Joe, Mary Jane.     Subjects     Joe, Mary Jane.     Kamloops Indian Residential School.     Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Biography.     Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Residential schools -- History.     Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.     Kamloops (B.C.)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Joe, Mary Jane.       by title:      Xwist memin kin = "I...       by call number:      371.82992 J64x     Search the Web     Joe, Mary Jane.     Joe, Mary Jane.     Kamloops Indian Residential School.     Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Biography.     Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Residential schools -- History.     Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.     Kamloops (B.C.)       MARC Display

Xwist memin kin = "I want to go home" : memories of Kamloops residential school and Joeyaska Ranch / Mary Jane Joe. by Joe, Mary Jane. Tellwell Talent, c2021. Call #: 371.82992 J64x Subjects Joe, Mary Jane.   Kamloops Indian Residential School.   Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Biography.   Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Residential schools -- History.   Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada.   Kamloops (B.C.) ISBN:  9780228850250 Alternate title:  I want to go home Memories of Kamloops Residential School and Joeyaska Ranch Description:  vii, 101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  Personal memories of people, routines, rules and education at an Indian residential school are outlined. It is a very different picture when compared with home life and family visits. The Government of Canada intended to separate children from parents, traditions, language and spiritual beliefs, but these were the very things that saved and nurtured Nk'xetko, Mary Jane Joe. "By describing my twelve years of suffering at the school, year by year and grade by grade I realized that the strengths that held me together and gave me the courage to survive and finish school were the teachings of my parents and grandmother. I never said thank you to them. They have passed away but their love and resilience live on. This book is a belated kwuks chemxw, thank you my dear family." Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Young Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 371.82992 J64x Ya Books Not Available Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Young Adult Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 371.82992 J64x Childrens Books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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