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These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens Cover Image Book Book

These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens

Slipperjack, Ruby 1952- (author.).

Summary: "Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to an Indian 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"--

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  • ISBN: 1443133183
  • ISBN: 9781443133180
  • Physical Description: 186 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
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  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Scholastic Canada Ltd., [2016]

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"Northern Ontario 1966"--Front book cover.

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Subject: Off-reservation boarding schools -- Canada
Indigenous girls -- Canada
Indigenous peoples -- Residential schools
Anishinabe -- Youth
Aboriginal Canadians
Aboriginal Canadians -- Residential schools
Genre: Juvenile fiction

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Lansdowne Library PS 8587 L53 T54 2016 (Text) 26040003402522 Main Collection Not holdable Lost 2023-01-03 11:59pm
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