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My Name Is Seepeetza

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By Shirley Sterling
Publisher Groundwood Books
My Name Is Seepeetza
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Her name was Seepeetza when she was at home with her family. But now that shes living at the Indian residential school her name is Martha Stone, and everything else about her life has changed as well. Told in the honest voice of a sixth grader, this is the story of a young Native girl forced to live in a world governed by strict nuns, arbitrary rules, and a policy against talking in her own dialect, even with her family. Seepeetza finds bright spots, but most of all she looks forward to summers and holidays at home.

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28748 words28,748 words
126 pages126 pages
Lexile 720LLexile 720L
Grade 3 to 7Grade 3 to 7
Age 8-12Age 8-12
Published 1998Published 1998

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Book ISBN:

0888991657

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