This autobiographical novel is written in the form of a diary, kept by Seepeetza in the 1950s after she is forced to leave her home and attend residential school in B.C. At school, where she is called Martha Stone, she endures a strictly regimented life during which she is abused and humiliated. She dreams of returning home for summers and holidays. This novel won the Sheila A. Egoff Children's Book Prize when it was first published in 1992.
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My Name Is Seepeetza