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THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday November 18 IKS Page Book review InsideOut is a must for youthandsocial workers By I RISC I A SETTEE I was at my home reading the prison section of James Inside Out when I got the phone call telling me that another sister had taken her life the night before at the Prison For Women in Kingston It was like a kick in the stomach and yet another reminder of the realities for many of- our native youth Inside Out Fifth House Publishers pages 19 95 is a must for people who work with native youth particularly social workers and teachers It is also a must for anyone who has a cons cience to improve the conditions for youth or just to inform oneself about the tragic situation too many native youth are faced with James Tyman takes the reader from his early childhood through to his current struggles of trying to make it within a racist system that doesn make sense Tyman s recollection of his first days in his white adoptive home will evoke memories for people who have been through the foster and adop tive home experience It isn t that all adoptive or foster homes deliberately set out to break the spirit of a native child It is more an act of omission a failure to help the child deal with where he or she is coming from and a failure to assist him in dealing with the in racism the child will en counter It is omitting to explain the underlying structure 1 red sons for the disproportionate numbers of native children in care of social the roots of the natural parents socioeconomic and hence personal problems And an omission of the explanation of why native people occupy the torn end of the socioeconomic lad with all the accompanying social ills In fact s book fails to discuss these omissions in any great depth What it does it does well It is one young 26 years man painful and anguished story of the realities of poverty and confusion with a system that has failed him ALIENATED Tymans recollection of his early days in the white school system and white communities were reminders that he never fit in But it was worse than not fitting in For him it was a totally alienating ex perience One that caused great confusion and ultimately near self destruction He could not figure why he was the brunt of racist slurs and attacks He never receiv ed any assistance to help him understand why so many of his people did not fit in and lived marginalised existences Nothing in his formal or informal training gave him the kind of understan ding he needed to meld a solid tity as a young native youth The consequence Tyman in his confu turned to the streets a place where he at least found a twisted form of acceptance streets practically destroyed him as it does to many of our youth There is no place for the outcasts in any city They become self fulfilled prophesies Weather Calendar 1990 NC This sixth edition wraps up 1 50 years of Canadian weather tracing the development of the Canadian weather service emphasizing the valuable con made by some volunteer weather observers highlighting the extremes from the year without a sum mertotheheatwaveofl936 and noting historic events in which he elements played a significant part Itlooksbackat Ihe 1980s dunng which at least three new entries made the world weather record book and three worst weather related disasters occurred and also looks ahead to the achievement of substantial reductions in the levels of that deadly sour stuff acid rain Included for each day of the year are informative and amusing weather anecdotes the majority of which are new from Canada and around the world such as March 1989 A very large solar flare caused auroral displays that could be seen as far south as Jamaica and produced a province wide blackout in Quebec It was the largest solar storm since 1932 April 13 Torontojsland was formed when strong lake winds breached the narrow isthmus connecting the harbour s outer peninsula to the main land Winds were at over the city but much stronger over the water The Weather Calendar lets you in on all this and more 95 Shipping and handling extra Available by mail from the Cana Government Publishing Centre Ottawa Canada 0S9 or through bookstores associated with CGPC aswellasfromoiherbookstores across the country live at RASPERS NO COVER Rd They are viewed as a criminal and they become one With little to no services for these children life becomes too painful to take They turn to drugs booze and the street for escape Tyman amazing struggle for recovery is the totally positive part of this book While he is committed to going straight there Is never any guarantee that this will be the eventual outcome Tyman represents a part of society that too many would like to ignore or pretend doesnt exist Tyman con tinues to make it perhaps despite and certainly not because of any particular societal base of support Scott Is a Prince Albert Sask writer and teacher She is Involved In the Aboriginal Womens Community and in the antiracism movement CHEVROLET OLDSMOBILE 33 Rd 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