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• Title:As long as the rivers flow / James Bartleman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bartleman, James, 1939-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Toronto : A. A. Knopf Canada, 2011.
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YF B37 A8 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools
  
• Library of Congress Subjects: Sexual abuse victims
  Teenage mothers
  
• Genre/Form:Fiction.
  
• Edition:1st ed.
  
• Description:xiii, 250 pages : map ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to a residential school on James Bay. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed" to the school's attendant priest with an attraction to little girls.
  Ten long years later, it is an emotionally devastated sixteen-year-old who finds her way home again, barely able to speak the only language her mother knows. Martha hangs out with other young people, and gives birth to a little boy, whom she calls Spider because of a web-shaped birthmark on his forehead. She loves him but has little knowledge or experience of good parenting. She seeks comfort and forgetfulness in alcohol, and Children's Aid authorities in Toronto, a place she has only heard of, take Spider away from her.
  When she later gives birth to Raven, a daughter, Martha's mother insists on keeping her in Cat Lake when Martha decides to move to Toronto to find Spider. When Raven turns thirteen, she feels hopeless, rejected by her mother and not sure what, if anything, life has in store for her. She enters a suicide pact with three other teens and is eventually the only one of the group still alive.
  As Long as the River Flow is filled with characters one cares deeply about. In spite of its sober theme, it is a story of hope, healing and embracing life."--Jacket.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in an electronic format.
  
• Local note:First Nations author.
  
• ISBN:9780307398741
  0307398749
  
• Contents:pt. One Early Years, 1956
  1991
  1. First Memories
  2 Indian Residential School
  3 Father Lionel Antoine
  4 Returning Home
  5 Change Comes to the Reserve
  pt. two Big City, 1991-2003
  6 Leaving for Toronto
  7 Spider
  8 New Beginnings
  9 Different Worlds
  10 Reconnecting
  pt. three Healing Circle, 2003
  11 Back to the Reserve
  12. Spider and the River
  13 In Search of Oblivion
  14 Church
  15 Healing Circle
  16 Embracing Life.