The Fire Still Burns is the powerful story of Sam George’s experiences at St. Paul’s Indian Residential School in North Vancouver. Sam will be in conversation with co-author Jill Yonit Goldberg.
Sam George is a Squamish Elder and a survivor of the Canadian Indian Residential School system. A retired longshoreman and semi-retired drug and alcohol counsellor, Sam now works as an educator with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society and speaks with students and community groups about his experiences.
Jill Yonit Goldberg is a writer, and a literature and creative writing instructor at Langara College in Vancouver, BC, where she teaches the Writing Lives course in which students collaborate with Indian Residential School survivors who are writing their memoirs. She worked with Sam George to bring his story to the page. Her novel, After We Drowned, is forthcoming with Anvil Press in 2024.
