An Indian someone, with all the truth born into her at the moment she was placed in her mother’s womb.” This book testifies to the healing power of reclaiming Indigenous culture. It is a story of returning to traditional values and becoming the voice of the voiceless.

It is a story of resilience and overcoming the worst life has to offer. This is a story of succumbing to pain and oppression. Alive with artful visualizations, every word causes the reader to turn page after page, never fully able to bring themselves to set it down. Although they were released from residential school, their minds remained imprisoned by their bruised and broken experiences.Įach word springs to life as Good describes the endless dramatic, traumatic scenes that are the reality of many Indigenous people who survived residential schools. Their lives become deeply entwined, clinging to one another to find their way. Turning away from so-called “Christian” ideals taught to them in the abusive setting of the residential school, they face the throes of addiction, prostitution, rage, suicide, and other mental disorders in Vancouver’s Lower East Side. Each of the five must find their own way. Mary’s Indian Residential School in Mission, B.C. Michelle Good’s words draw the audience into the lives of five children that come of age and are released from the control of St. Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, Five Little Indians has the capacity to break the reader’s heart into a million pieces.

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