My Name is Seepeetza
Books | Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / Canada / Native Canadian
3.5
Shirley Sterling
Her name was Seepeetza when she was at home with her family. But now that she's living at the Indian residential school her name is Martha Stone, and everything else about her life has changed as well. Told in the honest voice of a sixth grader, this is the story of a young Native girl forced to live in a world governed by strict nuns, arbitrary rules, and a policy against talking in her own dialect, even with her family. Seepeetza finds bright spots, but most of all she looks forward to summers and holidays at home.
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Author
Shirley Sterling
Pages
126
Publisher
Groundwood Books Ltd
Published Date
1992
ISBN
0888991657 9780888991652
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Had to give this a reread. Glad I did. Easy and fast read. Good if someone wants to read about rez school without all the detailed graphics of events. I like how the author told her story, in a journal/diary type way. There's no trying to be fancy or long-winded, just writing of how she grew up and what school was like. <br/><br/>*warning, may have triggers for some who went to residential school. Not overly graphic as some books I've read but there are various things she writes about what happened in rez school."
Tadie Bill