Bookworm, no. 99
Sarah Rogers reviews Andrea Currie’s “Finding Otipemisiwak.” William John Wither on Michael e. Casteels’s “Furthermore, the Lake.” A cover artist Q&A. Inside the June issue.
Home at Last
Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
Andrea Currie
Arsenal Pulp Press
272 pages, softcover and ebook
During the Sixties Scoop, from the 1950s to the 1980s, welfare agencies removed Indigenous children from their families and placed them in non-Indigenous homes. The government sought to assimilate First Nations, Inuit, and Métis ch…
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