Book: Red Wolf
Author: Jennifer Dance
Publisher: Dundurn
Link:Silver Birch 2015
Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory. In the late 1800s, both Native people and wolves are being forced from the land. Starving and lonely, an orphaned timber wolf is befriended by a boy named Red Wolf. But under the Indian Act, Red Wolf is forced to attend a residential school far from the life he knows, and the wolf is alone once more. Courage, love and fate reunite the pair, and they embark on a perilous journey home. Click link to read MORE!
This book made me very emotional it was very sad hearing about the residential schools and I think that no one should be put in one I know if I was I would be very sad and never be the same as I was before
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great piece of writing... Canadian Natives have faced many injustices and hardships since Europeans settled and colonized in Canada. They were treated as savages and less than human, their land was taken away from them, their families split apart, their forests chopped down, and their children forced to go through the residential school process. I think that this book represents all of the struggles aboriginal peoples went through and what their life was like. A lot of people are unaware of all the things that our native people went through and I think writing a book is a great way of spreading awareness for this cause. And I also think that children should know about Canadian history. So i would like to thank you for writing this book.
ReplyDeleteThis book was a very sad book it had to do with pain and suffering.It was amazing how the author described what was really going on in the childrens mind it was almost like you could feel there pain. this book was amazingly written and it came from so many different perspectives i really want to know were George or Red Wolf went. -Sophia Kozak
ReplyDeleteA great and believable story. So many things, happening at once, and in the end, Red Wolf gets home where he truly belongs, not with teachers that act like they're relatives of Dolores Umbridge.
ReplyDelete-Piper Beaty
I think this was a really great book. It was so sad and it was very detailed. I can't imagine going through what Red Wolf did. I would recommend this book to my friends. I liked that it was also written in the perspective of the wolf.
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This book was really good. It was really sad and moving, but at the same time so detailed I was practically there.It made me sad to think about what Red Wolf and Crooked Ear had to go through, and had brave they were. It also made me sad when Red Wolf had been so changed by the Christians that he thought his own people were savages.In all, I think this was a great book. -Kate Ker
ReplyDeleteThis was a very amazing story that taught me alot about the Aboriginal people and what they are forced to do. I found it amazing what they are allowed to do with these poor kids.
ReplyDeleteRed Wolf was an amazing book about history and facts. Even though it is fiction book it taught me a lot about First Nation people. Recommended if you like The Madman of Piney Woods.
ReplyDeleteLily N.
I think this book is a good way of spreading awareness for first nation's people and how hard life was in residential schools getting their land taken away, and forced out of their own religion and beliefs, it's depressing thinking that first nation's people still have to go through these hardships and living on reserves, getting their family's stripped away from them, people getting killed but everything staying unnoticed. even though this book is fiction things like this happened, I would thank the author for spreading awareness and writing aa good book.
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This is a wonderful book. The sheer hardship of the natives kept me thinking for long after I finished the book. I became so attached to George, and my heart broke when he argued with his parents and when he tried to get a job. I was so glad that at the end he went to find his grandmothers cabin. So: to the First Nations, I am very sorry, and to the author, thank you.
ReplyDeleteBefore I read his book, I had NOOOO idea whatsoever that people were treating the first nations like this. It's really sad to hear that six-year-olds get whipped and that First nations get pushed away from their own home and have to have permission to go into town from their government-given homes. I HAD NO IDEA!!! This book was my personal favourite from the silver birch fiction collection. I read for hours straight stuck on my couch because it was really, really, really interesting. They should give an award to that book.
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Before I read his book, I had NOOOO idea whatsoever that people were treating the first nations like this. It's really sad to hear that six-year-olds get whipped and that First nations get pushed away from their own home and have to have permission to go into town from their government-given homes. I HAD NO IDEA!!! This book was my personal favourite from the silver birch fiction collection. I read for hours straight stuck on my couch because it was really, really, really interesting. They should give an award to that book.
ReplyDelete~~~~~~~~~~Daniel Su~~~~~~~~~~
why does it always double my comments?!?!
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