Shirley: An Indian Residential School Story

Shirley: An Indian Residential School StoryShirley is only five years old when she is taken away by the Indian agent to live at a residential school. She loves learning, but she is not there by choice. From the first day walking up the long, lonely stone steps of the school building, life is hard and full of rules. Separated from her brothers and sisters, she is truly on her own. Shirley is very brave, but there is no one she loves to hold her at night when she is afraid. No one to tuck her in

In the captivating art of the oral tradition-told in the author's own voice

patriotic indoctrinations

The values of the worldview that she shares with us are ones that resonate on far more than just an intellectual level

Now in full colour

and essays combine with more conventional narrative techniques to create a multifaceted

and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg

and Indigenous Peoples

That big green-and-gold neon sign beckons to teens of every tribal Nation

co-founder of 350

This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history

Native peoples forged a New World of their own

In dramatic encounters