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Publisher:James Lorimer & Company Ltd., 2017
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Running Time: 02:36 hrsNarrator: Mike BarringtonPublisher:Center for Equitable Library Access, 2021
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- Author: Florence, MelanieContributor: Atlantic Publishers Marketing AssociationDate:Created2017Summary:
Raised on a reserve in northern Ontario, seventeen-year-old Joe Littlechief tries to be like the other guys. But Joe knows he's different -- he's more interested in guys than in any of the girls he knows. One night Joe makes a drunken pass at his best friend Benjy and, by the next morning, everyone on the rez is talking about Joe. His mother, a devout Christian, is horrified, and the kids who are supposed to be his friends make it clear there's no place for him in their circle, or even on the rez. Joe thinks about killing himself, but instead runs away to the city. Alone and penniless on the streets of Toronto, Joe comes to identify with the Aboriginal idea of having two spirits, or combining both feminine and masculine identities in one person.
Subject(s): Canada | Gay teenagers | Indigenous peoples | Indigenous teenage boys | Teenage Boys | Ontario | Two-spirit people | Indigenous reservationsOriginal Publisher: Halifax, NS, James Lorimer & CompanyLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9781459411630Collection(s)/Series: Atlantic Canadian: Read Atlantic | First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Collection