As Long as the Rivers Flow: A Last Summer before Residential School

This picturebook with lots of text mainly covers the story of the last summer a 10 year old boy experienced before he was taken away to residential school in 1944. The focus is on his life in the summer as a Cree boy, but the book ends with the tragic separation of him and other children from their families. Larry Loyie is Cree and the book is based upon his own experience as a child.

Resource format: Picturebook

Age recommendation: Grade 4 - 9

Keywords: residential school, Cree boy, family separation, Cree, based on memoir/biographical, kinship, land based learning

Year of publication: 2005

Publisher information: Groundwood Books