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Indlæser... Eagle Feather (1953)af Clyde Robert Bulla
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When the cruel cousin he has been working for refuses to let him leave at the end of the summer, a young Navajo boy runs away to rejoin his family and go to school. No library descriptions found. |
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The narration is so spare and matter of fact it was hard to get close to the characters or get excited by any of the developments.
Knowing that the abusive residential school system was forcing assimilation on Navajo children at the time the book was written in the 1950s, I was uneasy reading a story by what seems to be a white author about a Navajo boy considering whether or not he even wants to go to school, as if it will even be his choice:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/us/us-canada-indigenous-boarding-residential-.... ( )