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My name is Seepeetza

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  • Author: Sterling, Shirley
    Date:
    Issued
    2013
    Summary:

    At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.

    An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.

     

    Genre:
    Juvenile fiction, Canadian fiction
    Sujets: British Columbia | Indigenous peoples--North America | Juvenile fiction | Salish | Diaries
    Original Publisher: Toronto : House of Anasi, c1992
    Language(s): English