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Of Section 1: Five Little Indians And The Sociological Imagination: People

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Shirika Hariram
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Professor Joelle Mcneil
PLAN 233: People and Plans

Section 1: Five Little Indians and The Sociological Imagination (518)
Maisie's story blatantly shows the effects of residential schools on Indigenous children and communities. She suffers from the violence she endured physically and emotionally in the residential school and the trauma of being unwillingly torn away from her family and culture. We can see that she deals with the trauma she's endured in unhealthy ways, like self-harm and drugs, to end her life eventually. Her experience is like a reminder of the tragic impact that Canada's residential schools had on Indigenous peoples, as well as the continued …show more content…

It is important to note that this was when the residential schools had just been put up, so no one really knew about what was really happening there. After the children in the school turned 16 they were sent away with some money to start their own lives. They don’t really know anything about the outside world and they know practically nothing about their own culture anymore as they’re taught that it was wrong of them to be that way. We can see that in Maisie’s part in the book that she only has the other girls that were in the residential schools to talk to (Good, 57). Her boyfriend wasn’t able to relate to her experiences, to the point where he makes it seem like what happened to the children that were sent to these schools was a minor issue and not something extremely traumatizing(Good, 69). We can see that later on in the book that the American Indian Movement has been established, letting them find others that have been through the same things as them and it lets them speak up about what they’ve been through. The movement helped out the characters as we can see that Clara, Lucy and Kendra were helped by people from the AIM when they moved into their new home, and how Howie was defended by Clara, who ended up becoming a lawyer. When Clara …show more content…

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