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- catalog abstract ""First-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Deftly disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel." "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. As a teenager, he makes two failed attempts to run away from the orphanage." "He is labeled a troublemaker and indentured as a hired hand to a farm family. For a moment, it appears he may escape the grasp of abuse, but instead it is a deeper descent into darkness. The farmer beats him, clothes him in rags, and treats him like a slave, often working him to exhaustion without enough food. Remarkably, Razor struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life, but first he must endure the darkest and most vicious attack yet."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12202513.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description ""First-time author Peter Razor recalls his early years as a ward of the State of Minnesota. Deftly disclosing his story through flashbacks and relying on research from his own case files, Razor pieces together the shattered fragments of his boyhood into a memoir that reads as compellingly as a novel."".
- catalog description ""He is labeled a troublemaker and indentured as a hired hand to a farm family. For a moment, it appears he may escape the grasp of abuse, but instead it is a deeper descent into darkness. The farmer beats him, clothes him in rags, and treats him like a slave, often working him to exhaustion without enough food. Remarkably, Razor struggles to attend high school and begins to dream of another life, but first he must endure the darkest and most vicious attack yet."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "As a teenager, he makes two failed attempts to run away from the orphanage."".
- catalog extent "200 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0873514017".
- catalog identifier "0873514262 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Native voices".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press,".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota.".
- catalog subject "362.76/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Abused Indian children Minnesota Biography.".
- catalog subject "Abused children Minnesota Biography.".
- catalog subject "Child abuse Minnesota.".
- catalog subject "HV6626.53.M6 R39 2001".
- catalog subject "Minnesota. State Public School.".
- catalog subject "Ojibwa Indians Biography.".
- catalog subject "Ojibwa children Abuse of Minnesota.".
- catalog subject "Razor, Peter.".
- catalog title "While the locust slept : a memoir / Peter Razor.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".