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Une petite fille demande à son grand-père de dire un mot crie, mais celui-ci admet l'avoir oublié à cause de ses années passées à l'école résidentielle.
Sujets abordés : pensionnats, vérité et réconciliation, traumatisme, guérison, retrouver la culture, langage
A little girl asks her grandfather to say a word in Cree, but he admits that his language was stolen from him when he was a boy in residential school.
Relevant topics: residential schools, truth and reconciliation, trauma, healing, reconnecting to a culture, language
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Un récit touchant sur les relations intergénérationnelles et une initiation tout en délicatesse à la découverte d'un épisode sombre de l'histoire du Canada.
This sensitive, beautifully illustrated picture book explores the intergenerational impact of the residential school system that separated young Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down, and how healing can also be shared.
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