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Michelle Good
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Member Since
September 2019
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Five Little Indians
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2020
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16 editions
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Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
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2023
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5 editions
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Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
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2018
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2 editions
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"re-read from uni, i like coming back to this book. a classic tbh (even though it’s newer) "
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Thank you. I chose the term 'Indian' because in the time setting of the novel that was what we were known as. And yes. I am an intergenerational survi
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"The Canadian Residential School system & its equivalents across the world are an appalling piece of history that governments to this day refuse to acknowledge. The history is not as far back as people realize either, with the last Residential School "
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Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada:
"A collection of seven personal, highly accessible essays that dismantle colonial myths and examine the ongoing, systemic impacts of historical injustices on Indigenous people in Canada.
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"“Real One’s” is another excellent example of everything that is wrong with contemporary Canadian fiction. This story that attempts to relate the generational trauma caused by settler colonization and cultural appropriation is really a menagerie of cl"
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“There are no English words to describe how one woman walked into that lodge and another walked out. All Clara knew was that it took her back. Back to the birch grove and the angel songs. Back to who she was before Sister Mary, before the school, before they tried to beat her into a little brown white girl. She felt a certainty, from then on, that all the ones who had come before walked with her. Life was no longer just survival. It was about being someone. An Indian someone, with all the truth that was born into her at the moment she was placed in her mother's womb.”
― Five Little Indians
― Five Little Indians
“Do you pray Clara? Clara stiffened, the familiar rage rushing through her veins. Pray? You mean talk to myself and imagine some guy in the sky will make it all better?”
― Five Little Indians
― Five Little Indians
“The teachings show us that we learn and become strong through suffering. I can see that you are very strong. There is no shame in sadness.”
― Five Little Indians
― Five Little Indians
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