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Sugar Falls

a Residential School Story
May 13, 2015
Love this book, love this author. Gives a re-telling of the real life story of Betty Ross, Elder from Cross Lake First Nation, who was first kicked out of her house by her mother (a residential school survivor herself) at the age of 5, and is later adopted by a family who happens to find her. At age 8, a priest from the residential school across the lake comes and takes her there, where she is forced to learn Latin, work in the fields, be physically abused by the nuns and sexually abused by the priest. After several years, she moves to Winnipeg and finishes high school. A touching, loving, non-preachy story told in a respectful way with the message to keep the First Nations culture and stories and memories alive. 40 pages (easy to read in one sitting), black and white drawings.