![]() ![]() Good, who is also a lawyer, has certainly been political in her life as an advocate. To that end, Good, a member of Saskatchewan’s Red Pheasant Cree Nation, has written the novel “Five Little Indians.”ĭespite its glib title - a nod to the classic Agatha Christie mystery “Ten Little Indians,” whose title in turn comes from an offensive 19th-century minstrel-show ditty - the novel is an intense depiction of how life unfolds for five likeable young people once they’re out of residential school. And as one who straddles both worlds - she didn’t go to such a school but her life has been surrounded by survivors - she’s well positioned to heighten that awareness. “I choose to believe that this response arises from a lack of awareness,” she wrote. As she explains in a note to reviewers of her new book, it’s a question that those who never attended such schools - the last of which closed almost a quarter-century ago - have for those who did: Why can’t they just get over it and move on? But as the daughter and granddaughter of people who did, the long-time advocate for residential school survivors says a certain question often comes up. ![]() Michelle Good never went to a residential school. ![]()
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