Book
2 of 2 Copies Available
- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
When we were alone
Call Number
- JE STORIES ROBE (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
Winnipeg, Manitoba : HighWater Press, [2016]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 22 cm
Summary
"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story about a difficult time in history, and, ultimately, one of empowerment and strength"--
Subjects
- Off-reservation boarding schools > Juvenile fiction.
- Indigenous peoples > Education > Juvenile fiction.
- Cree Indians > Education > Juvenile fiction.
- Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction.
- Off-reservation boarding schools > Fiction.
- Indigenous peoples > Education > Fiction.
- Cree Indians > Education > Fiction.
- Grandmothers > Fiction.