Reflections from Them Days : A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut English-Ojibwe Plains Cree: Trade

Plains Cree: Trade

This powerful intergenerational family saga

For nations that wish to join that revolution or for those who simply want to understand the transformation now underway across Indigenous North America

the Americans and the British concluded that they could safely share the continent along a border that favoured the United States at the expense of Canadians and First Nations

The loneliness and feeling of exile are evident in her words

Reflections from Them Days : A Residential School Memoir from Nunatsiavut English-Ojibwe Plains Cree: TradeAs told by Nellie Winters. Nellie Winters is an established artist who works out of Makkovik, NL. She was born in Okak Bay, NL, but in 1956 her family was relocated to Makkovik. Transcribed and edited by Erica Obendorfer. When Nellie Winters was 11 years old, she was sent to attend the Nain Boarding School, a residential school 400 kilometres from her home. In this memoir, she recalls life before residential school, her experiences at the school, and