Xwist Memin Kin "I Want to go Home": Memories of Kamloops Residential School and Joeyaska Ranch

by Mary Jane Joe

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."

112 pages, Paperback

Published August 21, 2021

Reviews

[Donna Henning]

Thoughtfully written. I'm grateful for firsthand books like this to fill out the history of Canada.

[Emily]

Very straightforward and simply written. A sad firsthand account which I am thankful Mary Jane Joe had the courage to write.