![]() ![]() When she recalls her experiences at residential school, the Churchill Vocational School, they are mainly positive. And it would mark the beginning of a series of losses that I would struggle with into adulthood.” The pain of being severed from her mother, grandmother and siblings reverberated throughout her life. It would, however, turn out to be the end of my Arctic childhood of ice and snow. “Although I really had no idea what this all meant, I was excited at the prospect of a new adventure. ![]() But she also wonders at it, because now, with an adult’s understanding of what it meant to be cut off from her family and culture at such a young age, the thrill recedes. For instance, when she was young and told that she had been selected to attend school in the south, she recalls her excitement. Nor is the content relentlessly grim.īut there is a shadow across her memories of earlier times. Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s tone is not despairing. Ultimately, I read at the table, in silence, chapter-by-chapter, my bookmark pulled beneath each line of text as I read. This is a book I have had trouble leaving between the covers. In the past, this setting-aside was longer lasting. ![]() Many times, I had to set it aside, the core of my being all-a-shudder. Sheila Watt-Cloutier’s story of protecting her Inuit culture is fraught and complicated. ![]()
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