![]() ![]() ![]() When they were small children, they were taken from their homes and placed in a residential, church-run school located in British Columbia. In her first novel, Five Little Indians, the Cree writer Michelle Good counters the toxic stereotypes about Indigenous people that have long dominated mainstream writing, social discourse and the media. Her novel offers a space for Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers to enter the lives of five residential school survivors -Lucy, Kenny, Clara, Howie, and Maisie. Look no further than the narratives about Indigenous people found in settler-colonial sources which are often little more than destructive fictions. In his 2003 Massey Lecture, the novelist Thomas King -the first person of Cherokee descent invited to be a Massey lecturer -stated: “The truth about stories is that’s all we are.” Stories can transform a culture, but they can also attempt to destroy one. ![]()
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