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Teaching colonialism: lessons on aboriginal children’s resiliency and subjugation from the geographies of British Columbian residential schools
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George Clutesi, a former student of Alberni Indian Residential School and a well respected artist, wrote in a 1967 preface to a collection of short stories that “Indian folklore tales [are] not…just another attempt to portray the past and the sometimes romantic aspects of a nearly forgotten culture of a once carefree, happy, singing people. Instead, [folklore tales are] an attempt to approach from the backdoor, as it were…an apparently rich and cultured society.” Clutesi’s words offer profound insight into Aboriginal peoples’ resistance strategies against colonial projects: protect and keep extant Indigenous cultures through any means possible, including means that …

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