Hold Your Tongue Young Adult Combining contemporary articles with historical

Combining contemporary articles with historical documents

Resilience honours the Indigenous Peoples who were colonized by and endured the violence of Canada’s child stealing systems — residential schools

It is not meant to teach a person how to speak on their own

Facing obstacles of his own at every turn

Hold Your Tongue Young Adult Combining contemporary articles with historicalMatthew Ttreault is French Mtis from the Ste. Anne area of Manitoba. Upon learning his great uncle Alfred has suffered a stroke, Richard sets out for Ste. Anne, in southeastern Manitoba, to find his father and tell him the news. Waylaid by memories of his stalled romance, tales of run ins with local Mennonites, his job working a honey wagon, and struck by visions of Mtis history and secrets of his family's past, Richard confronts his desires to leave