First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
First Nation Literature Units Senior 1 - Victoria School District 61
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<strong>First</strong> <strong>Nation</strong> Non-Fiction Unit<br />
Conspiracy of Silence<br />
by Lisa Priest<br />
10<br />
www.amazon.ca<br />
Helen Betty Osborne was born in Norway House, Manitoba, the eldest of many children<br />
born to Joe and Justine Osborne. Her ambition was to go to college and become a teacher.<br />
However, the only way to succeed in doing so was to continue her education away from the<br />
reserve as secondary education was not available. She spent two years at Guy Hill Residential<br />
<strong>School</strong>, just outside of The Pas, and in the fall of 1971 went to live with a white family in The<br />
Pas, Manitoba. The Pas was a culturally-mixed town of whites, Métis and Cree people. Helen<br />
Betty attended Margaret Barbour Collegiate in The Pas.<br />
On the evening of her death, she had spent the evening with friends at The Northern Lite<br />
Cafe and then at the Bensons' place (where she was staying) before heading back downtown.<br />
After her friends went home, little is known of her whereabouts after this time, around midnight.<br />
She was walking home at approximately 2:30am when she was abducted, brutally beaten,<br />
sexually assaulted and killed.
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