Randy Fred attended the Alberni Indian Residential School for nine years, enduring starvation, illness and sexual abuse. Decades later, he and other survivors took the federal government and United Church to court and won.
'Tsqelmucwílc: The Kamloops Indian Residential School Resistance and a Reckoning' by author Celia Haig-Brown delves into the experiences of residential school survivors and how their lives continue to be affected by the horrors they faced at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Celia Haig-Brown's book Resistance and Renewal: Surviving the Indian Residential School was one of the first texts to describe the experiences of residential school survivors from their perspectives.