“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History

“We Survived the Night”: Julian Brave NoiseCat on Residential Schools & Recovering Native History

To mark Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we sit down with the award-winning Indigenous writer, journalist and filmmaker Julian Brave NoiseCat, member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen and a descendant of the Lil’Wat Nation of Mount Currie. His debut book, We Survived the Night, is part-memoir, part-investigative journalism, telling both his family story and the story of Indigenous erasure and resistance in what is now called North America. “I often think

Book review of We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat

Julian Brave NoiseCat’s unique memoir-history hybrid, We Survived the Night, pays tribute to his Salish ancestors’ rich, complex and profound stories of resilience.