Title: These are my words
Description: "Twelve-year-old Violet Pesheens is taken away to Residential School in 1966. The diary recounts her experiences of travelling there, the first day, and first months, focusing on the everyday life she experiences--the school routine, battles with Cree girls, being quarantined over Christmas, getting home at Easter and reuniting with her family. When the time comes to gather at the train station for the trip back to the residential school, her mother looks her in the eye and asks, "Do you want to go back, or come with us to the trapline?" Violet knows the choice she must make."--
Subjects: Indigenous children, Juvenile fiction, Indian children, Off-reservation boarding schools, Indians of North America, Native girls, Native peoples, Residential schools, Filles autochtones, Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse, Internats pour Autochtones, Enfants autochtones, Enfants indiens d'Amérique, Indiens d'Amérique, First Nations, Anishinabe, Youth
Places: Canada