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Powwow summer Book
author.Shingoose, Nahanni
Book | James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, Toronto : 2019.
  • 2 of 2 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Branch Call Number Location Holdable? Status
Diamond Trail YP FIC Shing Teen Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Wainfleet YP FIC Shing Teen - Non-Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
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Part Ojibwe and part white, River lives with her white mother and stepfather on a farm in Ontario. Teased about her Indigenous heritage as a young girl, she feels like she doesn't belong and struggles with her identity. Now eighteen and just finished high school, River travels to Winnipeg to spend the summer with her Indigenous father and grandmother, where she sees firsthand what it means to be an "urban Indian." On her family's nearby reserve, she learns more than she expects about the lives of Indigenous people, including the presence of Indigenous gangs and the multi-generational effects of the residential school system. But River also discovers a deep respect for and connection with the land and her cultural traditions. The highlight of her summer is attending the annual powwow with her new friends. At the powwow after party, however, River drinks too much and posts photos online that anger people and she has her right to identify as an Indigenous person called into question. Can River ever begin to resolve the complexities of her identity-- Indigenous and not?
Details
  • ISBN: 9781459414150 (trade paperback)
  • Physical Description: 176 pages ; 22 cmprint
  • Publisher: Toronto : James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, 2019.
  • Target Audience Note:
    RL 4.8.
    013+.
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