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Michelle Good
Goodreads Author
Member Since
September 2019
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Five Little Indians
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2020
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15 editions
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Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
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2023
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5 editions
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Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
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2018
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2 editions
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Cinq petits indiens
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"Oof 292 pages of straight up grief and heartbreak. I can't say I love this book because the story itself is so painful but this story is necessary to portray the trauma residential schools did to indigenous children. Fuck the government and fuck the "
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On what do you base your assertion that Amanda is not Indigenous? How arrogant of you. Amanda is my dear friend and fellow Indigenous author. She's a
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| For the first time in some time, I read a book that totally absorbed me and drew me into a carefully and very successfully created world. The Berry Pickers is a story about one family, but it is also the story of a time, a place, a people and the ver ...more | |
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"Michelle Good writes with brevity and gravity — a skill that's hard to come by. This book is an excellent primer on the atrocities committed in the name of "advancement" by the Canadian government. It also does a really good job of explaining what th"
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| The way Canadians understand the history of this land is a fairy-tale. It is concocted to either hide the intolerable actions and impacts of the inherent violence of colonialism or present it as something tolerable; something other than what it was. ...more | |
“There are no English words to describe how one woman walked into that lodge and another walked out. All Clara knew was that it took her back. Back to the birch grove and the angel songs. Back to who she was before Sister Mary, before the school, before they tried to beat her into a little brown white girl. She felt a certainty, from then on, that all the ones who had come before walked with her. Life was no longer just survival. It was about being someone. An Indian someone, with all the truth that was born into her at the moment she was placed in her mother's womb.”
― Five Little Indians
― Five Little Indians
“She checked in her purse again to make sure her money was safe, hesitated for a second and then tossed the prayer card on the bus floor.”
― Five Little Indians
― Five Little Indians
“The teachings show us that we learn and become strong through suffering. I can see that you are very strong. There is no shame in sadness.”
― Five Little Indians
― Five Little Indians
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