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My Name is Seepeetza

by Shirley Sterling · 1992

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At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.

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An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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diversitydiversityMore like thisLess of this
Setting
CanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of thisboarding schoolboarding schoolMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thiseducationeducationMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrensyoung adultmiddle grade
Length
short · 128 pages

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