As Long as the Rivers Flow

by Larry Loyie and Constance Brissenden

Book Overview

Winner of the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non-Fiction

From the mid-1800s to the late 1990s, the education of Indigenous children was taken on by various churches in government-sponsored residential schools. More than 150,000 children were forcibly taken from their families in order to erase their traditional languages and cultures.

As Long as the Rivers Flow is the story of Larry Loyie's last traditional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888996969
• ISBN13: 9780888996961
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Groundwood Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 7 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 6