Her notebook is the one place she can record all of her worries, and heartbreaks, and memories. A fear of forgetting the things she treasures most: her Anishnabe language the names of those she knew before and her traditional customs.

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. Violet Pesheens has been taken to Residential School. Ruby Slipperjack Summary of Dear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens Thank you!ĭear Canada: These Are My Words: The Residential School Diary of Violet Pesheens

Powerful, courageous, and deeply moving, The Outside Circle is drawn from the author's twenty years of work and research on healing and reconciliation of gang-affiliated or incarcerated Aboriginal men. Initially, Pete keeps up ties to his crew, until a jail brawl forces him to realize the negative influence he has become on Joey, which encourages him to begin a process of rehabilitation that includes traditional Aboriginal healing circles and ceremonies. One night, Pete and his mother's boyfriend, Dennis, get into a big fight, which sends Dennis to the morgue and Pete to jail. Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives with his younger brother, Joey, and his mother who is a heroin addict. In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives. Illustrated by Kelly Mellings Summary of The Outside Circle

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