Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy Macbain Robert W.
Drawing on the skills he honed as one of Canada's highest-paid newspaper reporters and news director of the second-largest radio station in the 1960s, Toronto author Robert MacBain tells, for the…
Specifikacia Lonely Death of an Ojibway Boy Macbain Robert W.
Drawing on the skills he honed as one of Canada's highest-paid newspaper reporters and news director of the second-largest radio station in the 1960s, Toronto author Robert MacBain tells, for the first time, the true story of the short life and tragic death of Charlie (aka "Chanie") Wenjack, Canada's most famous Indian residential school student.Books have been written about Charlie, the name his family has always used. Buildings named in his memory. He's featured in more than 50 "Legacy Spaces" across Canada sponsored by banks, major retailers, universities, performing arts centres, governments and others.Thousands of Canadians from coast to coast "Walk for Wenjack" every October.Children in more than 65,000 classrooms across Canada and in the United States are being taught about his altogether too short life and tragic death in a book