by boot | Feb 25, 2025
Loss of Language (November 13, 1958) Seepeetza expresses a desire to learn Indigenous languages and be an interpreter like her father, but her father and mother do not wish to teach them their language. Seepeetza wonders why it is bad. Why do you think the nuns and...
by boot | Feb 25, 2025
Loss of Culture (October 30,1958) In the final two sentences of the journal entry, Seepeetza’s grandmother is quoted as saying “Quaslametko didn’t want her and her brothers and sisters to go to school, because school would turn them into white people. They wouldn’t be...
by boot | Feb 25, 2025
Read the dedication and poem “Coyote Laughs,” found at the beginning of the book, to the class. Ask the students what they think the author’s message is for readers. Discuss the responses as a class.
by boot | Feb 25, 2025
Students may have a wider variety of understanding of the Indian Residential School systems that were instituted by the federal government. Working with a KWL chart (What do I Know? What do I Want to know? and What did I Learn?), have students generate a list of...
by boot | Feb 21, 2025
The story begins with the little girl saying, “When I travel, I count what I see.” Ask students if they count things when going on a trip. As a class, study the first illustration. Could this be a picture of a student in the class traveling with her father? When did...
