The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School
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The Fire Still Burns is a tale of survival and redemption through which Squamish Elder Sam George recounts his residential school experience and how it led to a life of addiction, violence, and imprisonment until he found the courage to face his past and begin healing.
Sam George is a Squamish Elder and an educator with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. He lives on the Eslhá7an reserve in North Vancouver, BC. Jill Yonit Goldberg is a literature and creative writing instructor at Langara College. She teaches the Writing Lives course where students work with residential school survivors to write their memoirs. Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson are students who participated in the Writing Lives course where they worked with Sam George to write his story.
Sam George is a Squamish Elder and an educator with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. He lives on the Eslhá7an reserve in North Vancouver, BC. Jill Yonit Goldberg is a literature and creative writing instructor at Langara College. She teaches the Writing Lives course where students work with residential school survivors to write their memoirs. Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson are students who participated in the Writing Lives course where they worked with Sam George to write his story.
LIB.00277
Vancouver, BC : Purich Books
2023
978-0-7748-8085-5
Preface - ix
Acknowledgements - x
A Note on the Text - xii
Chapter 1: Your Name is Tseatsultux - 3
Chapter 2: In Them Days - 15
Chapter 3: Our Lives Signed Away - 24
Chapter 4: The Strap - 32
Chapter 5: A Girl Named Pearl, a Boy Named Charlie - 38
Chapter 6: Runaway - 45
Chapter 7: I Tried to Be Invisible - 49
Chapter 8: Finding Ways to Feel Good - 57
Chapter 9: On Our Own - 62
Chapter 10: Oakalla - 67
Chapter 11: Haney Correctional - 72
Chapter 12: Longhosreman - 77
Chapter 13: Misery Loves Company - 81
Chapter 14: Drowning - 87
Chapter 15: Tsow-Tun Le Lum - 92
Chapter 16: I'm Still Here - 98
Afterword: On Co-Writing Sam George's Memoir - 107
Reader's Guide - 116
About the Authors - 132
Acknowledgements - x
A Note on the Text - xii
Chapter 1: Your Name is Tseatsultux - 3
Chapter 2: In Them Days - 15
Chapter 3: Our Lives Signed Away - 24
Chapter 4: The Strap - 32
Chapter 5: A Girl Named Pearl, a Boy Named Charlie - 38
Chapter 6: Runaway - 45
Chapter 7: I Tried to Be Invisible - 49
Chapter 8: Finding Ways to Feel Good - 57
Chapter 9: On Our Own - 62
Chapter 10: Oakalla - 67
Chapter 11: Haney Correctional - 72
Chapter 12: Longhosreman - 77
Chapter 13: Misery Loves Company - 81
Chapter 14: Drowning - 87
Chapter 15: Tsow-Tun Le Lum - 92
Chapter 16: I'm Still Here - 98
Afterword: On Co-Writing Sam George's Memoir - 107
Reader's Guide - 116
About the Authors - 132
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Biographies, Residential School
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