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My name is Seepeetza / Shirley Sterling. --

Sterling, Shirley. (Author).

Summary:

Twelve-year-old Seepeetza writes a journal about her time at the Kalamak Indian Residential School, where she is known by her "white name," Martha Stone.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0888991657 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780888991652 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 126 p. : maps.
  • Publisher: Toronto : Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, c1992.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 10.95

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Subject: Indians of North America > British Columbia > Residential schools > Juvenile fiction.
Salish Indians > Education > British Columbia > Juvenile fiction.
Indian girls > British Columbia > Juvenile fiction.
Residential schools > British Columbia > Juvenile fiction.
Salish > Education > British Columbia > Juvenile fiction.
First Nations girls > British Columbia > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Diary fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • Baker & Taylor
    Seepeetza must leave her family's ranch and go live at the Indian residential school, where she is forced to deny her native heritage
  • Perseus Publishing
    Her name was Seepeetza when she was at home with her family. But now that she's living at the Indian residential school her name is Martha Stone, and everything else about her life has changed as well. Told in the honest voice of a sixth grader, this is the story of a young Native girl forced to live in a world governed by strict nuns, arbitrary rules, and a policy against talking in her own dialect, even with her family. Seepeetza finds bright spots, but most of all she looks forward to summers and holidays at home.
  • Perseus Publishing

    An honest, inside look at life in an Indian residential school in the 1950s, and how one indomitable young spirit survived it.

    At six years old, Seepeetza is taken from her happy family life on Joyaska Ranch to live as a boarder at the Kalamak Indian Residential School. Life at the school is not easy, but Seepeetza still manages to find some bright spots. Always, thoughts of home make her school life bearable.

    Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2

    Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1

    Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6

    Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.

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