Saving the Haisla Nuyem
Jay Powell
Volume 17, Number 1 (2018) 17 (1): 1-8
Keywords residential schools, cultural suppression, Canadian aboriginal tribes, Haisla, traditional oral
Abstract
Residential schools, a recognized Canadian institution of assimilation for generations of Aboriginal youth, were unsuccessful in suppressing traditional culture among the Haisla of northern British Columbia due to the tribal rememberer, who codified the tribal oral law, their nuyem.
Jay Powell
Published June 1, 2018
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