Portrayals in Novels
| Year | Title | Author | ISBN | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | My Name is Seepeetza | Shirley Sterling | ISBN-10: 0888991657 | First published in 1992 in Canada, where it won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Book Prize, this autobiographical novel is written in the form of Seepeetza's diary in her Grade 6 year in the 1950s. |
| 1998 | Kiss of the Fur Queen | Tomson Highway | ISBN-10: 0385258801 | Jeremiah and Gabriel grow into acclaimed artists attempting to work within white, European traditions while retaining the influence of Native culture. The novel follows the boys from the idyllic innocence of their Cree childhood through a forced relocation to an abusive residential school to their lives as young artists attempting to discover how far their natural talents can take them. |
| 2001 | No Time To Say Goodbye: Children's Stories of Kuper Island Residential School | Sylvia Olsen | ISBN-10: 1550391216 | 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. |
| 2005 | Shi-shi-etko | Nicola I. Campbell | ISBN-10: 0888996594 | Shi-shi-etko counts down her last four days before going away. She tries to memorize everything about her home–tall grass swaying to the rhythm of the breeze, determined mosquitoes, working bumblebees. |
| 2008 | Shin-Chi's Canoe | Nicola I. Campbell | ISBN-10: 0888998570 | This moving sequel to the award-winning Shi-shi-etko tells the story of two children's experience at residential school. Shi-shi-etko is about to return for her second year, but this time her six-year-old brother, Shin-chi, is going, too. |
| 2009 | Porcupines and China Dolls | Robert Alexie | ISBN-10: 1894778723 | Enough alcohol silences the demons for a night; a gun and a single bullet silences demons forever. When a friend commits suicide and a former priest appears on television, the community is shattered. James and Jake confront their childhood abuse and break the silence to begin a journey of healing and rediscovery. |
| 2010 | Fatty Legs: A True Story | Christy Jordan-Fenton & Margaret Pokiak-Fenton | ISBN-10: 1554512468 | Taunted and humiliated by Raven, the unkind nun in charge of the young girls, Margaret is willing to endure almost anything as long as she can learn to read. The unpleasant chores do not daunt her, but the teasing of other students and the unfair punishments do. When she is the only girl forced to wear ugly red stockings, however, Margaret has had enough, and fights back. |
| 2011 | A Stranger At Home: A True Story | Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton | ISBN-10: 1554513618 | Travelling to be reunited with her family in the Arctic, 10-year-old Margaret Pokiak can hardly contain her excitement. It has been two years since her parents delivered her to the school run by the dark-cloaked nuns and brothers. |
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