Keeper'n Me English-Inuktitut How We Lived Together

How We Lived Together

I Want (Leaf Press

Métis has become an ever-widening racial category rather than the identity of an Indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture centred on the fur trade

delves into the long-term effects of childhood trauma on those who attended residential school and demonstrates the power of story to help in recovery and healing

eating the pitiful offerings of gritty mush and stale bread at meals

Keeper'n Me English-Inuktitut How We Lived TogetherKeeper'n Me has been reissued in this 2006 reprint. Ojibwe newspaper columnist, Richard Wagamese weaves a fascinating story about an Ojibwe man who was taken by Children's Aid as a child and after a series of foster homes finally escapes. Unfortunately his freedom is curtailed when life on the streets results in jail time. To his good fortune his Ojibwe family locates him and he returns to the reserve. The homecoming is at times humourous, poignant