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• Title:Indian school days / Basil H. Johnston.
  
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• Author/Creator:Johnston, Basil.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : Key Porter Books, ©1988.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: ER J64 I53 1988
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.4 On loan - Due on 06-12-2024
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools--Ontario.
  Indigenous Peoples--Education--.
  Ojibwa--History.
  
• Genre/Form:Biographies
  
• Description:250 pages : 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"Indian School Days is the humorous, bittersweet autobiography of Basil Johnston, a native Ojibway, who was taken from his family at age 10 and placed in a "residential" school in northern Ontario. The books opens in 1939 when the feared Indian agent visited Johnston's family and removed him and his four year-old sister to St. Peter Claver's School, a boarding school run by Jesuit priests at Spanish, 75 miles from Sudbury, Ontario." - inside cover.
  
• Notes:Includes glossary of terms.
  
• ISBN:1550133071
  
• Contents:Spanish!
  Sentenced to Spanish
  A Day in the Life of Spanish
  Holidays and Holy Days
  The Year Round
  Summer Holidays
  Escape and Near-Escape from Spanish
  The Cattle Drive
  The Best-Laid Plans...
  Neither Felons nor Angels: Ane One Beast
  Farewell, Spanish Justice, and Farewell
  Return to Spanish
  New Learning and Cultural Conflict
  Football, Chemistry and Tired Chickens
  The Bean Rebellion and Graduation
  Glossary
  Appendix: The Boys and Girls of Spanish.