Genocidal love : a life after residential school / Bevann Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Bevann, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fox, Bevann, 1968---Childhood and youth--Fiction.

Fox, Bevann.

Indigenous peoples--Residential schools--Canada--Fiction.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous children--Abuse of--Canada--Fiction.

Indigenous children.

Saskatchewan.

Canada.

Genre:

Autobiographical fiction.

Autobiographies.

Creative nonfiction.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Saskatchewan, Canada : University of Regina, [2020]

Summary:

"A residential school survivor's complicated path toward healing and love. Genocidal Love delves into the long-term effects of childhood trauma on those who attended residential school and demonstrates the power of story to help in recovery and healing. Presenting herself as 'Myrtle, ' Bevann Fox recounts her early childhood filled with love and warmth on the First Nation reservation with her grandparents. At the age of seven she was sent to residential school, and her horrific experiences of abuse there left her without a voice, timid and nervous, never sure, never trusting, and always searching. This is the story of Myrtle battling to recover her voice. This is the story of her courage and resilience throughout the arduous process required to make a claim for compensation for the abuse she experienced at residential school--a process that turned out to be yet another trauma at the hands of the colonial power. This is the story of one woman finally standing up to the painful truth of her past and moving beyond it for the sake of her children and grandchildren. In recounting her tumultuous life, Fox weaves truth and fiction together as a means of bringing clarity to the complex emotions and situations she faced as she walked her path toward healing."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Dedication

Content Warning

Abstract Life Me

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Prologue

Part I: Nohkom and Nimosom

Life Was Good

The Queen Bee

No Tears

Pregnant Means Kissing

Part II: Learn the Good and Leave the Bad

Meet the Queen

Going to School

The Little Red Child

Part III: Where Is Home?

Freckles Be Gone

The Cousins

Who Am I?

My Heart and Soul Shattered

The Connection

Part IV: No Quick Fix

No Love Here

Get Your Horses

What Happened in Vegas Didnt Stay There

Part V: The Claim

The Process

They All Leave

Genocide Got My Brother

No One Talks About It

My Life in the Colonizers Hands

Part VI: When Will It End?

Model A Myrtle

The List

We Are Royalty Too

Discussion Questions

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-88977-745-4

0-88977-743-8

OCLC:

1151849979