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Work for Canadian residential school survivors informs lawyer’s debut novel

By Katrina G. Dibiase
May 25, 2022
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Work for Canadian residential school survivors informs lawyer’s debut novel

By Matt Reynolds

May 25, 2022, 8:33 a.m. CDT

Michelle Bon. Photo by Silken Sellinger Photography.

As a lawyer, Michelle Good has spent years investigating the trauma Canada’s residential school system inflicted on Indigenous peoples. As an author, it took him nine years to write his first novel about the lives of five teenagers who leave a church-run school and reunite in Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia. For Good, it was imperative that she take her time to tell the story well. His patience paid off.

Cover of the book FiveLittleIndians.

His first book, five little indianswas published in 2020. It has since become a Canadian national bestseller, winning the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award, and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award.

This month, the US Department of the Interior released the first volume of its report on Indian boarding schools, on which Canadian schools were modeled. Investigators identified burial sites at 53 different schools and said more than 500 children had died. He expects the number of burial sites to increase as the investigation continues.

Meanwhile, Canada began its truth and reconciliation process about a decade and a half ago. And it was the discovery last year of dozens of unmarked graves in Canada by the Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc First Nation at the Kamloops Indian Residential School that sparked the US investigation.

Good, a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, discusses the US investigation and Canada’s winding road to truth and reconciliation with the ABA Journal’s Matt Reynolds in this episode of the Modern Law Library Podcast.

She also discusses how her work as a lawyer influenced the writing of the book and why many Indigenous peoples still feel the impact of the Canadian school system to this day.

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<p>Michelle Good worked for Indigenous organizations for 25 years and, as a lawyer, defended residential school survivors for over 14 years.  She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia while practicing law and managing a law firm.  Her poems, short stories and essays have appeared in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of Best Canadian Poetry in 2016 and 2017. <em>five little indians</em> is his first novel.</p>
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