TY  - BOOK
AU  - Loyie,Oskiniko Larry
AU  - Brissenden,Connie
AU  - Holmlund,Heather D.
TI  - As long as the rivers flow
SN  - 0888994737
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - Groundwood Books
KW  - Residential schools
KW  - Canada
KW  - Children's literature
KW  - Cree
KW  - BCACCS
N1  - First Nations author - Larry Loyie - Cree; "A last summer before residential school. "; Includes bibliographical references; Grades 3-6
N2  - "Loyie shares a quiet but powerful first-person account of his last summer before he and his siblings were taken away from their family. Most of the story focuses on what was otherwise a normal seasonal routine for the Cree people of that era, with the family moving from their main cabin to their summer "camp" for a few weeks. Apart from the foreshadowed separation, this particular spring-summer progression was enlivened by the opportunity for the children to care for an orphaned baby owl, and an encounter with one of the biggest grizzly bears ever shot in North America. All of the day-to-day detail, close family bonding, and unexpected adventure draw readers comfortably into 10-year-old Lawrence's experience so that the final pages are all the more painful. When the children learn that they must go to the residential school or their parents will be imprisoned, and they are physically loaded onto the back of a truck by strangers, the sense of separation and loss is keenly felt. Holmlund's realistic and detailed watercolors expertly illuminate events throughout the story, in vignettes, plates, and a few full-page pictures. The epilogue briefly summarizes the facts about boarding schools in general, highlighting Lawrence's own experience, and includes several black-and-white photos." --School Library Journal, 2003
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