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Contents<br />

Preface................................................................................................... v<br />

Introduction.......................................................................................... 1<br />

Life before residential school.............................................................. 3<br />

Forced departure.................................................................................. 13<br />

A place of refuge................................................................................... 19<br />

<strong>The</strong> journey........................................................................................... 23<br />

Arrival.................................................................................................... 31<br />

Language and culture........................................................................... 47<br />

Bedwetting............................................................................................ 59<br />

Daily life................................................................................................ 63<br />

Strange food.......................................................................................... 69<br />

School meals......................................................................................... 71<br />

Chores................................................................................................... 79<br />

Religious training................................................................................. 85<br />

Separating siblings............................................................................... 91<br />

Gender relations................................................................................... 95<br />

Contact with parents............................................................................ 99<br />

Fear, loneliness, and emotional neglect............................................. 109<br />

Despair ................................................................................................. 117<br />

Hiding the truth.................................................................................... 119<br />

Classroom experience.......................................................................... 121<br />

Regimentation...................................................................................... 129<br />

Integration into public schools........................................................... 131<br />

Truancy................................................................................................. 133<br />

Discipline.............................................................................................. 139

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