Status
Available
Call number
Call number
811.6 C35 2015
Collection
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."
Genres
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. Show Less
ISBN
1772310050 / 9781772310054