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Stewart, Elizabeth Mary.
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Sam, Louie, d. 1884 -- Fiction.
Stó:lō First Nation -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
First Nations -- British Columbia -- Fiction.
Lynching -- Fiction.
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
British Columbia -- History -- Fiction.
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Stewart, Elizabeth Mary.
Sam, Louie, d. 1884 -- Fiction.
Stó:lō First Nation -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
First Nations -- British Columbia -- Fiction.
Lynching -- Fiction.
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
British Columbia -- History -- Fiction.
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The lynching of Louie Sam : a novel / by Elizabeth
Stewart
.
by
Stewart
, Elizabeth Mary.
New York : Annick Press, c2012.
Call #:
FICTION STE
Subjects
Sam, Louie, d. 1884 -- Fiction.
Stó:lō First Nation -- Crimes against -- Fiction.
First Nations -- British Columbia -- Fiction.
Lynching -- Fiction.
Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People.
British Columbia -- History -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781554514380 (pbk.)
155451438X (pbk.)
Description:
288 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
A fictionalized account of the 1884 lynching of fourteen-year-old Louie Sam, a Native American, by a group of men from the Washington Territory, told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old George Gillies and his best friend, whose fathers were part of the lynch mob that traveled into British Columbia to get what they saw as justice for the murder of a white Washington settler.
Awards:
Winner of the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2013.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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