Jasmine Broeder
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A Response to Tomson Highways Kiss of the Fur Queen
Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen is an almost bibliographical story of Highway's experience growing up as an indigenous person. Nothing specifically states that this book is a biography. However, the names in the book are the same as known family members in Highway's life. Highway discusses residential schools and the abuse that he and his brother experienced as well as his first hand struggle with assimilation. The boys at Highway's residential school were not allowed to speak their native language and were punished if they were caught. As well, they were all forced to have the same hair cut in order to promote similarity and destroy the idea of uniqueness and difference. Everyone who attended the residential school had to become Christian, this involved Sunday morning mass, reading the bible and praying before bed time. Not only were they forced into this religion, but the main teaching tool for teaching the young boys English was the bible; it was the centre of anything that was taught at the residential school.
By Jasmine Broeder6 years ago in Poets