The legacy of residential schools continues to haunt Canadians, and little is still known about the day and public schools where Indigenous children were also sent to be educated.

In What We Learned, two generations of Tsimshian students – elders born in the 1930s and 1940s and middle-aged adults born in the 1950s and 1960s – share their recollections of attending day schools in northwestern British Columbia. We will hear their stories be invited to consider traditional Indigenous views of education that conceive of learning as a lifelong experience that takes place across multiple contexts.