Strong Women Stories

Chapter 13

This chapter was about Creating a Community Based School. The native children that attended the town school were taken out by their parents because of the racism and hard time the other students were putting them though at the school. The parents soon started their own school on the reservation. The parents had a lot of say in their children’s education. There was a graduate student by the name of Jean Knockwood, As she was in the process of receiving her master’s degree the parents wanted her to home school their children. She agreed and the school started with 50 kids. They were taught Mi’kmaq culture. Later there were problems with the teacher and the parents which affected the community.