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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Janicki, Peggy.     Subjects     Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Dakelh First Nation -- Education -- History -- Juvenile literature     Dakelh First Nation -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.     Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools -- Juvenile literature.     Indigenous students -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Janicki, Peggy.       by title:      The secret pocket / ...       by call number:      371.82997 J33sp     Search the Web     Janicki, Peggy.     Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Juvenile literature.     Dakelh First Nation -- Education -- History -- Juvenile literature     Dakelh First Nation -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.     Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools -- Juvenile literature.     Indigenous students -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.       MARC Display

The secret pocket / Peggy Janicki ; Carrielynn Victor. by Janicki, Peggy. Orca Book Publishers, c2023. Call #: 371.82997 J33sp Subjects Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Juvenile literature.   Dakelh First Nation -- Education -- History -- Juvenile literature   Dakelh First Nation -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.   Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Residential schools -- Juvenile literature.   Indigenous students -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature. ISBN:  9781459833722 Description:  1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 28 cm. Summary:  The true story of how Indigenous girls at a Canadian residential school sewed secret pockets into their dresses to hide food and survive. Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other girls had a genius idea: drawing on the knowledge from their mothers, aunts and grandmothers who were all master sewers, the girls would sew hidden pockets in their clothes to hide food. They secretly gathered materials and sewed at nighttime, then used their pockets to hide apples, carrots and pieces of bread to share with the younger girls. Based on the author's mother's experience at residential school, The Secret Pocket is a story of survival and resilience in the face of genocide and cruelty. But it's also a celebration of quiet resistance to the injustice of residential schools and how the sewing skills passed down through generations of Indigenous women gave these girls a future, stitch by stitch. Other authors:  Victor, Carrielynn, 1982- Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Dartmouth North Public Library Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 371.82997 J33sp Childrens Books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 371.82997 J33sp Childrens Books Checked out Jul 16, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 371.82997 J33sp Childrens Books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Cole Harbour Public Library Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection 371.82997 J33sp Childrens Books Checked out Jul 18, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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