As long as the rivers flow

Bartleman, James 1939- (Author).

Summary: "The novel follows one girl, Martha, from the Cat Lake First Nation in Northern Ontario who is "stolen" from her family at the age of six and flown far away to a residential school on James Bay. She doesn't speak English but is punished for speaking her native language; most terrifying and bewildering, she is also "fed" to the school's attendant priest with an attraction to little girls.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307398765 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0307398765 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiii, 250 p.) : 1 map.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A novel"-- Cover.
Formatted Contents Note:	Pt. One Early Years, 1956 -- 1991 -- 1. First Memories -- 2 Indian Residential School -- 3 Father Lionel Antoine -- 4 Returning Home -- 5 Change Comes to the Reserve -- pt. two Big City, 1991-2003 -- 6 Leaving for Toronto -- 7 Spider -- 8 New Beginnings -- 9 Different Worlds -- 10 Reconnecting -- pt. three Healing Circle, 2003 -- 11 Back to the Reserve -- 12. Spider and the River -- 13 In Search of Oblivion -- 14 Church -- 15 Healing Circle -- 16 Embracing Life.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.