When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do. The days are long, he is very lonely and always hungry, but he finds solace down at the river with a gift from his father, a tiny cedar canoe. It seems like a very long time until the salmon swim upriver again and he can finally go home.
Themes
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Oppression & Resilience
Settings: Northern America
Tribal Affiliation/Homelands: Unspecified
Immigration: Non-Immigrant
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: First/Native Nations/American Indian/Indigenous
Character Prominence: Joint Main, Secondary