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(0)Robert Bain
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English
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The sons of a Scottish immigrant and a Blackfoot cook are separated after their mother dies giving birth to the second son at a ranch near Calgary in May, 1939. The father is killed less than three years later defending the British Crown colony of Hong Kong. One brother is raised as a Blackfoot at an Indian reserve southwest of Calgary. The other is raised white in a middle-class neighborhood in Toronto.
Bill Eagletail is taken to sweat lodges,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the skills he honed as one of Canada's highest-paid newspaper reporters and news director of the second-largest radio station in the 1960s, Toronto author Robert MacBain tells, for the first time, the true story of the short life and tragic death of Charlie (aka "Chanie") Wenjack, Canada's most famous Indian residential school student.
Books have been written about Charlie, the name his family has always used. Buildings named in his memory....