I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family Oneida As a Choctaw citizen

As a Choctaw citizen

Photographs by Greg Gent

University of Winnipeg

When Loretta surrenders her young girls to the county and then disappears

part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp writers convening on what it means to get free as the world spins into some new orbit

I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family Oneida As a Choctaw citizenAn evocative autobiographical picture book about Cree activist Na'kuset's life as a young girl taken from her home along with thousands of other indigenous children during the 1960s, and the journey of discovery that leads her to reclaim her life and culture. I have come from somewhere else, where I am Cree and I have a big sister and another name. One night, a very young girl was removed from her home during Canada's Sixties Scoop, which tore