In Whispers

In WhispersThe year was 1957. Simon Pendagayosh and Carolina Shaugobay meet outside a variety store on a Saturday trip to town while attending St. Mary's Mission School, a Catholic boarding school for Native students. Simon, thirteen years of age, and Carolina, fourteen, fall in love. The boarding school era had a devastating effect on many Native people, designed to dispossess them from their communities, assimilate them into non Native society, and erase their

their language and sorrows

Inspiring and affecting

Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder

educational tales

Governor General's Award-nominated author Sue Farrell Holler casts a spell of simple wonder as small child earnestly sets out to take care of his grandfather for the day

Following the success of Embers

to the hard and hollow emptiness of a child's grave

unsentimental witness provided by Eddie

when Native Americans were forced to tour in wild west shows as an alternative to prison

Within the larger history

jealousy and unstinting love that explores with empathy

many Ojibwe children were placed in boarding schools that forbid them to use their native language