Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. The Saskatchewan Library Association will take Michelle Good on tour in March to six communities around the province. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality. There are almost a quarter million copies of the book in print. And to then embark on coming to a deeper more accurate understanding.” There’s nothing more enriching than to realize you’re wrong. Five Little Indians: A Novel by Good, Michelle and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. “What I hope the book does is to inspire people to reconsider what they think they know about Canadian history….about Residential Schools, about inter-generational trauma. Chapter List (27 chapters): Chapter 1: Five Little Indians Chapter 2: Cover Chapter 3: Title Page Chapter 4: Dedication Chapter 5: Prologue Chapter 6: 1. She appreciates the many awards the book has received but only because the recognition elevates the profile of the book, meaning more people will read it. Good wrote the book after years of frustration and outrage over Canadian’s ignorance about the residential school system. Good’s mother was a residential school survivor from the Red Pheasant Cree Nation. The UBC alum’s novel features five protagonists, and while the characters are fictional, the traumas they display are very real. Michelle Good’s book Five Little Indians, deals with the history of residential schools. Five Little Indians follows young lives forced into residential school Author Michelle Goods new novel Five Little Indians is a heartbreaking and uplifting story about the lives of. As a Cree lawyer, poet and writer, Good’s representation of residential school survivors and intergenerational survivors in her novel, Five Little Indians, comes from lived experience. The Saskatchewan Library Association selected a book for their One Book One Province award.

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