Slipperjack, Ruby,

These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens / Ruby Slipperjack. - Toronto Scholastic Canada Ltd. 2016 - pages cm.

"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."--



ISBN: 9781443133180 (hardback)

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 2016900404X

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Native girls
Native peoples
Canadian Aboriginals
Prejudice
Abuse
Culture

Dewey Class. No.: jC813/.54