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.
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 a survivor of the Canadian Indian Residential School system. A retired longshoreman and semi-retired drug and alcohol counsellor, Sam now works as an educator with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and speaks with students and community groups about his experiences. Jill Yonit Goldberg is a writer, and a literature and creative writing instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches the Writing Lives course in which students collaborate with Indian Residential School survivors who are writing their memoirs. She worked with Sam George to bring his story to the page. Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson are students who participated in the Writing Lives class where they worked with Sam George to write his story.
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Preface / Sam George Acknowledgments A Note on the Text 1 Your Name Is T'seatsultux 2 In Them Days 3 Our Lives Signed Away 4 The Strap 5 A Girl Named Pearl, a Boy Named Charlie 6 Runaway 7 I Tried to Be Invisible 8 Finding Ways to Feel Good 9 On Our Own 10 Oakalla 11 Haney Correctional 12 Longshoreman 13 Misery Loves Company 14 Drowning 15 Tsow-Tun Le Lum 16 I'm Still Here Afterword: On Co-Writing Sam George's Memoir / Jill Yonit Goldberg Reader's Guide About the Authors
Preface / Sam George Acknowledgments A Note on the Text 1 Your Name Is T'seatsultux 2 In Them Days 3 Our Lives Signed Away 4 The Strap 5 A Girl Named Pearl, a Boy Named Charlie 6 Runaway 7 I Tried to Be Invisible 8 Finding Ways to Feel Good 9 On Our Own 10 Oakalla 11 Haney Correctional 12 Longshoreman 13 Misery Loves Company 14 Drowning 15 Tsow-Tun Le Lum 16 I'm Still Here Afterword: On Co-Writing Sam George's Memoir / Jill Yonit Goldberg Reader's Guide About the Authors
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