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Genre/Form: | Autobiographies Biography Indians Biographies |
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Named Person: | Peter Razor; Peter Razor |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Razor |
ISBN: | 0873514262 0873514017 9780873514262 9780873514019 |
OCLC Number: | 123142361 |
Description: | 200 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Series Title: | Native voices. |
Responsibility: | Peter Razor. |
Abstract:
Abandoned as an infant in 1930 at the State Public School in Owatonna, Minnesota, Razor is raised by abusive workers who think of him as nothing more than "a dirty Injun" and endures years of beatings "with a broom or radiator brush - whatever was handy." One night, while he is asleep, one of the matrons attacks him with a hammer. In the wake of this savage beating, he finally receives a brief interlude of compassionate care in the hospital
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- Razor, Peter.
- Minnesota. -- State Public School.
- Child abuse -- Minnesota.
- Abused children -- Minnesota -- Biography.
- Ojibwa children -- Abuse of -- Minnesota.
- Ojibwa Indians -- Biography.
- Orphanages
- Abused children.
- Child abuse.
- Ojibwa children -- Abuse of.
- Ojibwa Indians.
- Minnesota.