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These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens / Ruby Slipperjack.

By: Series: Dear CanadaPublisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Scholastic Canada Ltd., [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781443133180
  • 1443133183
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: These are my words.DDC classification:
  • jC813/.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PZ7.S63194 T54 2016
Summary: "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."-- Provided by publisher.
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"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."-- Provided by publisher.

University of Alberta copy in the Canadian Children's Book Centre Depository Collection.

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