Calling Down the Sky (Canadian Aboriginal Voices)

by Rosanna Deerchild

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

811.6 C35 2015

Call number

811.6 C35 2015

Description

"A poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950's when thousands of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit children were placed in these schools against their parents' wishes."

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Publication

Bookland Press (2015), 96 pages

Original language

English

Language

User reviews

LibraryThing member Cail_Judy
A powerful, poetic narrative recounting a mother's residential school experience. Deerchild captures her mother's voice in a clear, direct style that feels like you're sharing tea in her kitchen.
LibraryThing member brianfergusonwpg
Heart-wrenching episodes related through a gentle introspective delivery of an ancient culture and tradition. These poems are empowering relaying tragic memories with a power that cannot be denied. The primordial lovely sky of the title summoned down. This volume can serve indigenous people as a
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reminder, a set of short prayer/stories to recount the historic truth and to retain it.
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ISBN

1772310050 / 9781772310054

Barcode

97817723100541
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