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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.
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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.
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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-
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Dartmouth North Public Library
Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection
371.82997 J33sp
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Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection
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Children's Nonfiction - Indigenous Peoples Collection
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