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laverna's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Alcoholism, and Colonisation
Moderate: Racism, Sexual violence, and Physical abuse
Minor: Pedophilia, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, and Incest
lakecryptid's review
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Colonisation, and Racism
Minor: Police brutality, Suicide, Physical abuse, and Pedophilia
minkkmuse's review
3.75
Graphic: Death and Alcoholism
Moderate: Sexual violence, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Racism
jhbandcats's review against another edition
4.5
In this book, he shows the collective trauma visited upon the Dene, an indigenous people who primarily live in Canada’s Northwest Territories. His interviews with natives across Dene land, from the old to the young, show the problems they as a group face, and the ways the communities are struggling to resolve them.
The section on the residential schools, where children were removed from their families and forced to adopt the white people’s culture, was the most disturbing. In addition to being kidnapped and held prisoner for 8-10 years by the government, the children were physically punished and frequently sexually abused.
By the time they returned home, they were so emotionally damaged that they could no longer communicate with their parents and grandparents. They relied on alcohol and drugs to mute their pain, and they passed their misery onto their own families. It is beyond tragic.
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Alcoholism, Colonisation, Confinement, Drug abuse, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Bullying, Child death, Kidnapping, Genocide, Sexual assault, and Suicide
rainbowrachel's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Colonisation, and Alcoholism
bmessierlegendre's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Colonisation
bookbuzzard's review
4.0
This book, like Sacco's other books, is very narration heavy, with lots of small print in small boxes that can often be hard to read and absorb, I often find myself reading one page over and over. However, overall, I am glad to have read it.
Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Religious bigotry, Animal death, Addiction, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Genocide, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Child abuse, and Colonisation
Moderate: Cursing, Rape, Sexual assault, Bullying, Child death, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Sexual violence, and Death
Minor: Incest, Self harm, Grief, Death of parent, Racial slurs, and Pregnancy
serendipitysbooks's review
4.25
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, and Sexual violence
annabunce's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Racism, Sexual violence, and Suicide
brogan7's review
4.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Alcoholism, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, and Child abuse