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by Sylvia Olsen, Rita Morris and Ann Sam
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No Time to Say Goodbye, 2001) - Indigenous & First Nations Kids Books - Strong Nations

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Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential Schoolwith Rita Morris and Ann SamNo Time to Say Goodbye is a fictional account of five children sent to aboriginal boarding school, based on the recollections of a number of Tsartlip First Nations people. These unforgettable children are taken by government agents from Tsartlip Day School to live at Kuper Island Residential School.

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By Shirley Sterling - great journal style story. Each "chapter" recounts an event at the Indian Residential School, and contrasts it to a memory from her home

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By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
This novel has also been translated into French, "Les Bas du Pensionnat"

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By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

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A Stranger at Home, 2011) - Indigenous & First Nations Kids Books - Strong Nations

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The powerful memoir of an Inuvialuit girl searching for her true self when she returns from residential school. Traveling to be reunited with her family in the Arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It's been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers.

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By Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton

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Illustrated story by Jenny Kay Dupuis, Kathy Kacer

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I Am Not a Number, 2016) - Indigenous & First Nations Kids Books - Strong Nations

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When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her.

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by Larry Loyie

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As Long As the Rivers Flow (PB), 2005) - Indigenous & First Nations Kids Books - Strong Nations

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In 2006, As Long As the Rivers Flow was the award recipient for First Nation Communities Read.This is the story of Larry Loyie's last summer before entering residential school, where children were forcibly taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures. It is a time of learning and adventure.

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by Eve Bunting

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Cheyenne Again, 2002) - Indigenous & First Nations Kids Books - Strong Nations

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In the late 1880s, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken from his parents and sent to a boarding school to learn the white man's ways.

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