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Dear Editor:

When one critiques or reviews an author's work of art it is just that, a review of the author's work of art, not an attack of one's soul.

In Windspeaker's review of Basil Johnston's Honour Earth Mother, I was profoundly hurt to read the personal attack and diagnosis [on Johnston] "It seems that the author may have unresolved issues from his residential school experience."|

As an author and a survivor of the residential school, I Delphine Eva Peltier, share my experience in the hopes that another may relate and that perhaps others will learn of the damnation that was forced upon the innocent.

You would do well to continue reviewing an author's work of art, but please do not mix reviews with personal attacks or diagnosis. They do not belong on the same page.

Perception is in the pen of the beholder. Kudos to Basil for penning as he perceives.

So says Delphine Eva Peltier, number 144 of the failed assimilation process.

I say failed because I live to tell about it. Meegwetch