Book
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- CENTRAL: Children's Collection
- OSHTEMO: Children's Collection
Stolen words
Call Number
- JE GROW FLOR (CEN, OSH)
Publication Information
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Second Story Press, [2017]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks him how to say something in his language - Cree - her grandpa admits that his words were stolen from him when he was a boy. The little girl then sets out to help her grandfather regain his language."--Publisher's description.
Subjects
- Grandfathers > Juvenile fiction.
- Granddaughters > Juvenile fiction.
- Indigenous children > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
- Cree language > Juvenile fiction.
- Cree Indians > Juvenile fiction.
- Off-reservation boarding schools > Canada > Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Juvenile fiction.
- Indians of North America > Ethnic identity > Juvenile fiction.
- Indians, Treatment of > North America > Juvenile fiction.
- Grandparent and child > Fiction.
- Indigenous children > Canada > Fiction.
- Cree Indians > Fiction.
- Cree language > Fiction.
- Off-reservation boarding schools > Canada > Fiction.
- Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation > Fiction.
- Indians of North America > Ethnic identity > Fiction.
- Indians, Treatment of > North America > Fiction.
- Canada > Juvenile fiction.