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• Title:These are my words : the residential school diary of Violet Pesheens / by Ruby Slipperjack.
  
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• Author/Creator:Slipperjack, Ruby, 1952- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto, Ontario : Scholastic Canada Ltd., [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: YUB S655 T44 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects: Anishinabe--Youth
  Indigenous Peoples--Residential schools
  
• Canadian Subjects: Indigenous girls--Canada
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada
  Indigenous peoples--Residential schools
  
• Genre/Form:Juvenile fiction
  
• Description:186 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
  
• Series:Dear Canada.
  
• Summary:Violet Pesheens is struggling to adjust to her new life at residential school. She misses her Grandma; she has run-ins with Cree girls; at her "white" school, everyone just stares; and everything she brought has been taken from her, including her name she is now just a number. But worst of all, she has a fear. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language; the names of those she knew before; and her traditional customs. A fear of forgetting who she was. Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. And maybe, just maybe there will be hope at the end of the tunnel.
  
• Target Audience:Ages 9-12.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:"While the events described and some of the characters in this book may be based on actual historical events, Violet Pesheens is a fictional character created by the author, and her diary is a work of fiction." - [page 187]
  Illustrations used were from actual historical and current photographs.
  "Northern Ontario, 1966"--Cover.
  
• ISBN:1443133183 (hardback)
  9781443133180 (hardback)