One good book away from becoming a reader: First Nations literature in a northern classroom

I arrived in the isolated, northern community of Big River, Northwest Territories on August 17, 1987. I wanted my students to discover the rich world that waited for them in books. It is a curious paradox that one loses oneself in a text, only to find oneself. I wanted my students to find ideas and...

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Published in:Language and Literacy
Main Author: Susan Catlin
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
French
Published: Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada 2011
Subjects:
literacy
first nations literature
identity
anthro-se
hisphilso
Northwest Territories
Big River
First Nations
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