Research Catalog

Title

Flowers on my grave : how an Ojibwa boy's death helped break the silence on child abuse / Ruth Teichroeb.

Author

Teichroeb, Ruth, 1956-

Publication

Toronto : HarperCollins, c1997.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xi, 242 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

When Lester Desjarlais, a young Ojibwa boy, took his own life, what began as a routine inquiry into yet another Native suicide grew into a wide-ranging examination not only of his community but of the larger society which failed to save him. The 1991 inquest into his death, scheduled to last a day, broadened into one of the longest in Manitoba's history -- uncovering a tragic story of abuse, family suffering, and finally, tragedy. The author of this book, a journalist for the Winnipeg Free Press, covered the inquest.

Subject

• Desjarlais, Lester, 1974-1988
• Desjarlais, Lester, 1974-1988
• Indian children > Abuse of > Sandy Bay Indian Reserve
• Child welfare > Sandy Bay Indian Reserve
• Violence envers les enfants indiens d'Amérique > Sandy Bay (Réserve indienne)
• Enfants > Protection, assistance, etc. > Sandy Bay (Réserve indienne)
• Ojibwa Indians > Manitoba > Social conditions
• Ojibwa children > Abuse of > Sandy Bay Indian Reserve No. 5
• Obibwa children > Biography
• Child welfare > Sandy Bay Indian Reserve No. 5
• Child sexual abuse > Sandy Bay Indian Reserve No. 5
• Suicide
• Psychology, Adolescent
• Child Abuse

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "A Phyllis Bruce book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Going home -- 2. Betrayal -- 3. Little Cree -- 4. Broken promises -- 5. Breaking the silence -- 6. Pointing the finger -- 7. Forty days and forty nights -- 8. Revelations -- 9. Full circle -- Conclusion: For the sake of the children -- Epilogue

ISBN

0002554291 :

LCCN

cn^96931886^

OCLC

• 37519345
• SCSB-10737400

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library