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One of the main ideas of the authorities in residential schools for breaking resilient children was the “Iron Sister.” Saul tells us the story of Shane Big Canoe who was sent to solitary confinement for a total of ten days. Saul describes the Iron Sister: ” It was shaped like a shoe box, long and flat with a small grille in the door. I could see that it wasn’t high enough to allow even the smallest child to stand, or even kneel” . When Shane Big Canoe came back Saul observed that “there was no more fight in his eyes”. Saul also encounters isolation when he isolates himself from the Kellys when he leaves to migrate from job to job. He acknowledges how he segregated himself from others: “I did not move beyond the safety of the wordless barrier
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