Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story Mojave Sanaaq was first published in

Sanaaq was first published in syllabic Inuttitut in 1987

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and girls at the Cherokee Female Seminary studying the same curriculum as women at Mount Holyoke

Simpson is our much-needed historian of the future

author of Turn Here Sweet Corn

Sugar Falls: A Residential School Story Mojave Sanaaq was first published inInspired by true events, this story of strength, family, and culture shares the awe inspiring resilience of Elder Betty Ross. Abandoned as a young child, Betsy is adopted into a loving family. A few short years later, at the age of 8, everything changes. Betsy is taken away to a residential school. There she is forced to endure abuse and indignity, but Betsy recalls the words her father spoke to her at Sugar Falls words that give her the resilience,