Book Review: Wenjack by Joseph Boyden

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Book Review: Wenjack by Joseph Boyden

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I really enjoyed this short story. It is a story that needs to be heard and broadcasted. Canada is not innocent. The treatment of the Indigenous people and the horrors of residential schools needs to be talked about more while being cautious of Indigenous trauma – intergeneration traumas. We need these stories. We need them in schools. We need to acknowledge what REALLY happened on this land and uncover all that has been erased and deliberately unrecorded. Chanie Wenjack is only one of thousands of Indigenous children that has suffered at the hands of colonizers/residential schools – but it is the story that made it into the public in 1966. And many more are to come. Reconciliation can not be had and the pretenses we have right now are not enough, not until the past is addressed correctly, taught correctly, not until indigenous voices have the platform they deserve and their stories shared willingly.

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.” 

“In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.” 

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