The Spruces
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Steve Roe
Northern Review, no. 21, Summer, 2000, pp. 134-135
Description
Book review of: The Spruces by Rex Holmes.
Compilation, edited and annotated, mainly consisting of newspaper articles published between 1920 and 1921. Text in bold, footnotes and words in square brackets are the editor's.
Stories in book are based on accounts from Indigenous people who attended Kuper Island Residential School. Lesson plan is intended for use with Grades 9 and 10.
Examines the story Stolen Life by Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson.
Humanities: Literature Option Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 2000.
Writer, activist and former lawyer discusses his book, Peace and Good Order, the effects of incarceration on Indigenous communities, and the way that jailhouse culture fills the cultural void left by residential schools. Duration: 28:08