Recounts the efforts of thirteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin and her fellow Aboriginal students at J.R. Nakogee Elementary in Attawapiskat First Nation in Canada to have a decent school built in their small town. Includes a timeline, a glossary, quotes, and photographs.
year: 2011
call number/section: 1000, 971
subjects: cree indians, fiction, youth movement, children's rights, indians of north america, education, schools, attawapiskat (ont.), fiction, political activists, attawapiskat (ont.), biography, teenagers, children, legal status, laws, etc, education, elementary, native americans, north america, government relations, cree children, attawapiskat, indian activists, cree teenagers, elementary education, activistes indiens d'am?rique, ouvrages pour la jeunesse, adolescents cris, enfants, droits, enfants cris, ?ducation, cris (indiens), relations avec l'?tat, koostachin, shannen, 1994-2010, ouvrages pour la jeunesse, biography, ouvrages pour la jeunesse
Editions
Wilson, Janet
Second Story Press (2011)
Recounts the efforts of thirteen-year-old Shannen Koostachin and her fellow Aboriginal students at J.R. Nakogee Elementary in Attawapiskat First Nation in Canada to have a decent school built in their small town. Includes a timeline, a glossary, quotes, and photographs.
Schools: 4
Wilson, Janet
Presents the true story of Shannen Koostachin and the people of Attawapiskat First Nation, a Cree community in Northern Ontario, who have been fighting for a new school since 1979 when a fuel spill contaminated their original school building.
Schools: 2