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Chapter 15 Jada& Raphaella & Rose

"I closed my eyes and I cried for the memory of my father. He held me a long moment, then let me go" (wagamese 59)
It is significant because he finds safety in the priest while his world is filled with danger.

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"Frozen to death saving me, and I was cast adrift on a strange new river." (42, Wagamese).
This symbolizes Saul's loss of culture in his family, his grandmother, who constantly promoted the Aboriginal culture.  Saul is about to venture into a new life that doesn't align with his original one.

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"So I retreated. That's how I survived. Alone."  (Wagamese 55)

Chapter 14

Topics:

-strength

-suffering

-solitude

Saul is suffering is silence and he has the strength to not give the satisfaction of showing his emotions to the residential school staff.

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Chapter 12- Joie.              "At St. Germ's the kids called me "Zhaunagush" because I could speak and read english"(Wagamese 48).

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Chapter 12- Joie.              "At St. Germ's the kids called me "Zhaunagush" because I could speak and read english"(Wagamese 48).

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Saul has now become the enemy to his school mates. It's sad because he does not intend to be like his oppressors, but they've already integrated themselves into his being. He is just as much of an aboriginal as all the other children yet they have turned against him.

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Topic: suicide, pain, suffering
The pain of being forcefully taken away from their homes and culture led the children to kill themselves.
"I saw wrists slashed and the cascade of blood on the bathroom floor and , one time, a young boy impaled on the times of a pitchfork that he'd shoved through himself" (55)

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Saul witnesses the mistreating  of other children in the school and how they broke their will to live by unjustly punishing them. This is significant because it shows how merciless and brutal the schools were to make kids choose death over living in that kind of envi

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"She cradled it in both palms, and with a blur of motion she twisted Lonnie around by the collar and pushed him to his knees. He screamed as the paddle struck his back" (Wagamese 46). This is significant because they are forcing them to change their culture and beliefs through oppression.

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"At first I was simply grateful for my proximity to the game" (Wagamese 61)
Hockey gave him the happiness he needed to live in the residential school that was full of suffering as nature did when he was with his grandmother.
"I'd stand there, arms held high in triumph, and I would not feel lonely or afraid, deserted or abandoned, but connected to something far bigger than myself." (62)
Further proves the point that hockey is his escape from the misery of the school.

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The affect of discrimination and stereotypes on human beings
Harasis and waghma

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Struggles of the minority due to racism

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It shows how bad residential schools were and how natives were mistreated

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Nature helps in escaping all things bad

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Treat other with respect and as a human beings. Also educate yourself about others and their history.

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He is trying to expose the truth about his struggles in residential schools aswell as other aboriginals

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The oppression of people from certain governmental institutes cause families to be broken and culture to be lost

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It is better to leave things where they are naturally found rather than forcing them into a new environment.
-Joie

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Assimilation is a method of gaining power as it forces a culture onto someone typically from a minority group and takes away their rights.

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Tradition is apart of your everday life when it's stripped of you it changes a big part of who you are. We need to know that European culture isn't the only beautiful culture. All of them are beautiful.

CHAPTER 13

"When we bent finally and took the fish in our hands to set them back into the water, most of us were crying"  (Wagamese 53).

This quote shows the First nation kids going back to play in their old culture. This quote shows how much they miss their culture and how they are stripped of it. Just doing simple things as catching a fish has a big effect on them because they haven't done it in a very long time. It brings back memories of culture, family and nature.

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Assimilation takes away not only culture but people's souls and will to live

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Taking away peoples cultures is taking away their identity and sense of self. Part of someone's identity is rooted in their traditions and customs.

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Struggles of the indigenous people due to racism in Canada
Harasis and waghma

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Trying to educate the audience about aboriginal history (ex tradition, culture and appreciation of nature)

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Cultural assimilation:
Destroys a person's individuality.
-Jacob and William

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The appropriation and assimilation of a nations culture will cause

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Nature is a source of all good things

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This book shows the reality of residential schools and the toll they've taken on First Nation children and families

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Attempting to change others will cause way more harm than good.
-Joie