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Kenny, the boy who steals a boat and escapes back to a home that has transformed beyond recognition, leads a transient life that pulls him away from family and fatherhood. For the five titular children, survival comes in many forms-each of them flawed, but no less vital. Rather than dwelling on the horror of the schools themselves (a move that the disappointing Clint Eastwood-produced film adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse was all too keen to make, for instance), the novel focuses on the aftermath for the children who fought for their lives both in and beyond the walls of an institution that was designed to leave them with nothing.

In this stunning debut, Red Pheasant Cree author Michelle Good confronts us with the question of what it means to be a survivor.

As long as there are Canadians who, like the incumbent leader of the Official Opposition, will insist that the function of the Indian Residential Schools was to “provide education,” we will continue to need books like Michelle Good’s Five Little Indians.ĭo not let the novel’s nondescript title put you off.