No Time to Say Goodbye: Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential School - Softcover

Olsen, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550391216 ISBN 13: 9781550391213

Verlag: SONO NIS PR, 2002

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No 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. The five are isolated on the small island and life becomes regimented by the strict school routine. They experience the pain of homesickness and confusion while trying to adjust to a world completely different from their own. Their lives are no longer organized by fishing, hunting and family, but by bells, line-ups and chores. In spite of the harsh realities of the residential school, the children find adventure in escape, challenge in competition, and camaraderie with their fellow students. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny, always engrossing, No Time to Say Goodbye is a story that readers of all ages won't soon forget.

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Sylvia Olsen is an award-winning author of many books, including young adult novels, first readers, picture books, history and personal-essay. She also writes about knitting and designs knitting patterns. Sylvia teaches First Nations housing management at Vancouver Island University and works toward creating new housing opportunities on reserves in Canada. Sylvia lives in North Saanich, British Columbia on W̱SÁNEĆ territory.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SONO NIS PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1550391216
• ISBN 13: 9781550391213
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172
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