Valley of the Birdtail : An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (PB) Chippewas and diagrams

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this story considers Indigenous youth in relation to the urban constructs and colonial spaces in which they survive—from violence

Phil Fontaine offers the foreword to this timely collection

At school the girl asks the teacher for help as she learns how to say grandfather in Cree

Baxter writes about Anishinaabay life before European contact

Valley of the Birdtail : An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation (PB) Chippewas and diagramsA heart rending true story about racial injustice, residential schools and a path forward. Divided by a beautiful valley and 150 years of racism, the Waywayseecappo reserve and the town of Rossburn have been neighbours for nearly as long as Canada has been a country. Their story reflects much of what has gone wrong in relations between Indigenous and non Indigenous Canadians. It also offers, in the end, an uncommon measure of hope. In the town of