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Memoirs Lexeywa - I Pass The Torch to You Tom Swanky, Beatrice Elaine Silver
Leaving home to live at Indian Residential School was an inevitable event for young Bea Silver, a Sto: lo girl in Sumas. Attendance was compulsory for Native children like her and her many older siblings who had already been attending since before she was born. They never talked about the school, but her big brothers prepared her for the ordeal she faced, when they taught her boxing!
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