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By Macarena Mantilla, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Wren Editor\u2019s note: As a member of Discourse Community Publishing, The Wren uses quotation marks around the word \u201cschool\u201d because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission found residential \u201cschools\u201d were \u201can education system in name only for much of its existence.\u201d How is a language reclaimed? And what comes after? These are the main questions at the centre of Laura Michel\u2019s Echoes of the Homesick Heart. What began as a research project funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through the Community University Research Alliance (CURA), Echoes of the Homesick Heart is a verbatim theatre project, a type of documentary theatre created from words of real people. Based on over 40 in-person interviews across the Secw\u00e9pemc Nation, the story focuses on… <\/p>\n

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By Macarena Mantilla, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Wren Editor\u2019s note: As a member of Discourse Community Publishing, The Wren uses quotation marks around the word \u201cschool\u201d because the Truth and Reconciliation Commission found residential \u201cschools\u201d were \u201can education system in name only for much of its existence.\u201d How is a language reclaimed? And what comes after? These are the main questions at the centre of Laura Michel\u2019s Echoes of the Homesick Heart. What began as a research project funded through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through the Community University Research Alliance (CURA), Echoes of the Homesick Heart is a verbatim theatre project, a type of documentary theatre created from words of real people. Based on over 40 in-person interviews across the Secw\u00e9pemc Nation, the story focuses on... <\/p>\n

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