The secret pocket
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Mary was four years old when she was first taken away to the Lejac Indian Residential School. It was far away from her home and family. Always hungry and cold, there was little comfort for young Mary. Speaking Dakelh was forbidden and the nuns and priest were always watching, ready to punish. Mary and the other girls had a genius idea: drawing on the knowledge from their mothers, aunts and grandmothers who were all master sewers, the girls would sew hidden pockets in their clothes to hide food. They secretly gathered materials and sewed at nighttime, then used their pockets to hide apples, carrots and pieces of bread to share with the younger girls. Based on the author's mother's experience at residential school, this is a story of survival and resilience in the face of genocide and cruelty. But it's also a celebration of quiet resistance to the injustice of residential schools and how the sewing skills passed down through generations of Indigenous women gave these girls a future, stitch by stitch.
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Canada
Carrier Indians
Carrier Indians -- Education -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Carrier Indians -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Education
Electronic books
Ethnology
History
Indigenous peoples
Off-reservation boarding schools
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Picture books
Racism
Social action
Social conditions
Voluntarism
Carrier Indians
Carrier Indians -- Education -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Carrier Indians -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Education
Electronic books
Ethnology
History
Indigenous peoples
Off-reservation boarding schools
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Picture books
Racism
Social action
Social conditions
Voluntarism
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9781459833722
9781459833739
9781459833739
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660L
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Canada
Carrier Indians -- Education -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Carrier Indians -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Electronic books
Ethnology
Indigenous peoples
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Picture books
Racism
Social action
Voluntarism
Carrier Indians -- Education -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Carrier Indians -- Social conditions -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Electronic books
Ethnology
Indigenous peoples
Off-reservation boarding schools -- British Columbia -- History -- Pictorial works -- Juvenile literature
Picture books
Racism
Social action
Voluntarism
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The secret pocket
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The Secret Pocket [electronic resource] / Peggy Janicki
The secret pocket / Peggy Janicki ; illustrated by Carrielynn Victor
The secret pocket / Peggy Janicki ; illustrated by Carrielynn Victor
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The secret pocket
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Carrier Indians
Education
Electronic books
Ethnology
History
Indigenous peoples
Off-reservation boarding schools
Racism
Social action
Social conditions
Voluntarism
Education
Electronic books
Ethnology
History
Indigenous peoples
Off-reservation boarding schools
Racism
Social action
Social conditions
Voluntarism
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