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Analysis Of These Are My Words By Ruby Slipperjack

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from their families and forced intSection 1-Summary The book These Are My Words by Ruby Slipperjack illustrates the traumas in the residential school. The Government separated the native children from their family and took away their language, names and cultures . Children were given a number and it was their identity. Their letters from home would be checked by the authority and if it is okay then it would be given to them. The principal would use a yardstick to punish who does something wrong. An unmarked graveyard existed there. Children were not allowed to say anything about the school when they write to their family. All of their belongings were taken by the authority. Making Connections Headline: Canada’s policy of forced assimilation,
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