The article, The Lonely Death of Chanie Wenjack, by Ian Adams describes the life of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who tragically died because he was running away from the residential school he was forced to attend. Wenjack died in the journey of coming home to his father, which was a couple hundred miles away from the residential school. He was seen collapsed from hunger and exposure from the coldness. The article describes the life of Wenjack in school, how his academic learning is going and the process of him escaping the residential school going with his friends to their house. The article informs how many other Indigenous children escapes residential school and ending up with physical harm. For instance, losing fingers and toes due
