Five Little Indians Mississauga Department of History at the

Department of History at the University of Victoria professor John Sutton Lutz utilizes oral histories

a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

the integrity of their words

The author identifies Elsie Knott of Curve Lake as the first female band chief in who was elected in 1953

and his own recollections

Five Little Indians Mississauga Department of History at theFive Little Indians is written by Michelle Good of Cree ancestry and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan and whose mother and grandmother were residential school survivors. In Five Little Indians, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church run residential school. They are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention.