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Indigenous Writers on the Residential School Experience

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Porcupines and China Dolls

Author Breaks New Ground, Shatters Taboos

By Robert Arthur Alexie

Theytus Books, Canada

May 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye, Buffalo Bay

“A true story of residential school life and moving on.”

By Larry Loyie with Constance Brissenden

Published by Theytus Books

Juvenile Non-Fiction | October 2008

978-1-894778-62-6

$14.95 CDN | $14.95 USD

5 x 8 | 160 pages | Paper

 

 

 

 

 

Children Left  Behind: The Dark  Legacy of Indian Mission Boarding Schools

 

 

by Tim Giago, with illustrations by Denise Giago

Clear Light Publishing,

Santa Fe, NM, 2006

Paperback, 176 pages

Winner of 2007 Independent Publisher Bronze Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Night Sun and the Seven Directions

(The first in a series that the author is developing for the young reader.

A fun way to learn on American history.)

By Spencer G. Lone Tree

Young adult fiction

Trade Paperback 2004

376 pages

 

 

 

 

More books reviews to come.

Coming soon:

A review of  "Two Trails Narrow," an unforgettable story about a journey that begins on an Indian reserve in Northern Ontario, makes a stop at a residential school and ends up in the bloody battlefields in War World II Europe.

 

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