Good for nothing
(2004)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Groundwood Books : Made available through hoopla, 2004
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781554982677 (electronic bk.) MWT11380119, 1554982677 (electronic bk.) 11380119
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The year is 1959, and fifteen-year-old Nipishish returns to his reserve in northern Quebec after being kicked out of residential school, where the principal tells him he's a good-for-nothing who, like all Indians, can look forward to a life of drunkenness, prison and despair. The reserve, however, offers nothing to Nipishish. He remembers little of his late mother and father. In fact, he seems to know less about himself than the people at the band office. He must try to rediscover the old ways, face the officials who find him a threat, and learn the truth about his father's death
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