Aboriginality by Alan Twigg

Author:Alan Twigg [Twigg ,Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS006000
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Published: 2005-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Egoff Prize-winner Shirley Sterling, 1993

Sterling’s story of Seepeetza closely mirrors her own experiences. Taken to a red brick building in Kamloops at age six, Seepeetza is forced to wear strange clothes, sleep in a dormitory with other Aboriginal girls, eat strange food and have her hair cut. The nuns call her Shirley instead of Seepeetza, or her nick-names Tootie or McSpoot. She is prohibited from talking “Indian,” but her life is not entirely bleak. She enjoys the dance practices for school concerts and she takes comfort from her memories of home, always looking forward to summer vacations.

Born on the Joyaska Indian Reserve in 1948, Shirley Anne Sterling moved to Vancouver where she trained as a ballerina. She obtained her Ph.D. in Education and twice received the Native Indian Teacher Education Alumni Award, plus the Laura Steinman Award for Children’s Literature. She died after a two-year battle with cancer on April 3, 2005, at Merritt, B.C.

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