Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
-
-
[2020]., Juvenile, Medicine Wheel Education Inc. Call No: 371.8 WEB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A short rhyming story for a young audience (ages 4-6) about Phyllis Webstad's experience attending residential school, the story behind Orange Shirt day.
-
-
2016., Pre-adolescent, Second Story Press Call No: E DUP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Irene and her family live together on Nipissing First Nation, until the day a government agent comes to their door to take Irene and two of her brothers away to live at a residential school, very far from home. Irene's parents don't want to send their children away, but they are given no choice. Irene's mother hugs her close and tells her "Never forget who you are!"
-
-
[2016]., Juvenile, Second Story Press Call No: NL E DUP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to"--
-
-
-
2016., Juvenile, Second Story Press Call No: LS E Dupeis Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Forced to attend a residential school, Irene Couchie struggles to remember who she is and the ways of her people, despite the abuse she endures.
-
-
[2016]., Juvenile, Second Story Press Call No: 371.82 DUP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to"--
-
-
[2005]., Juvenile, House of Anansi Press Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shi-shi-etko gathers together many of the things of nature and places them into her bag of memories so that she will never forget her people and land as she prepares to go many miles away to the required residential school.
-
-
-
c2008., Juvenile, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: E CAM Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Shi-shi-etko and her brother Shin-chi are sent to an Indian residential school. Draws on interviews with survivors of Indian residential schools to describe daily life at the school where they were forced to use English names, study, work, and never speak to each other.
-
-
[2008],., Primary, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: [E] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shi-shi-etko returns to the Native American residential school along with her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi; but until they reunite with their family again in the summer, the two endure hunger and loneliness as they go to school, do hard work, and suffer extreme punishments.
-
-
[2017]., Juvenile, Second Story Press Call No: 371.8 FLO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families.
-
-
-
[2021]., Juvenile, Highwater Press Call No: 371.82 Rob Edition: 10th-anniversary edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Daniel, a schoolboy, is assigned to interview an elderly survivor of the old Indian residential school system. His assignment leads him to Betsy, the grandmother of one of his friends, who tells him her story of loss, abuse, abandonment, and indignity in the residential school, and how she found resilience, strength, and determination in the words that her father gave her at Sugar Falls.