Author : Mary Jane Joe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780228850250
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Book Synopsis Xwist Memin Kin "I Want to Go Home" by : Mary Jane Joe
Download or read book Xwist Memin Kin "I Want to Go Home" written by Mary Jane Joe and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."