These are my words :
Slipperjack, Ruby, 1952-
These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens / Ruby Slipperjack. - 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm - Dear Canada . - Dear Canada. .
"Northern Ontario 1966"--Front book cover.
"Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make."--
9781443133180 1443133183
2016900404X
Indian children--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Residential schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.S63194 / T54 2016
jC813/.54
These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens / Ruby Slipperjack. - 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm - Dear Canada . - Dear Canada. .
"Northern Ontario 1966"--Front book cover.
"Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make."--
9781443133180 1443133183
2016900404X
Indian children--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Residential schools--Canada--Juvenile fiction.
PZ7.S63194 / T54 2016
jC813/.54