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Canada Grandfathers Juvenile fiction Indigenous children Canada Fiction Indigenous peoples Canada Fiction Memory Native children Canada Juvenile fiction Off-reservation boarding schools Off-reservation boarding schools Canada Fiction Off-reservation boarding schools Canada Juvenile fiction Picture books for childrenFlorence, Melanie
Summary: "This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FLOCampbell, Nicola I
Summary: Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press, [2005] 2005
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CAMDupuis, Jenny Kay
Summary: Forced to attend a residential school, Irene Couchie struggles to remember who she is and the ways of her people, despite the abuse she endures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2016