Namwayut: We Are All One-A Path To Reconciliation (Friesens, 2022), written by Robert Joseph, a hereditary Chief of the Gwaewaenuk people and a residential school survivor, is a powerful source of such information. In it, Chief Joseph shares his personal story, from his early childhood on Canada’s west coast where he started learning his culture’s teachings, to the abuse and violence he suffered at residential school, to the shame and pain that led him to a destructive bout with alcoholism, to his starting a career and family before he kicked the bottle by reconnecting with his culture, to his more recent activism on behalf of residential school survivors and his work towards reconciliation.
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