Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number Menominee or even exist

or even exist

As was the case with his biography of Buffalo Bill

the cradle was vital to a Native infant's first months of life

to understand both her and her baby’s origins

is tied in to these values

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number Menominee or even existDual language edition in Nishnaabemwin (Ojibwe) Nbisiing dialect and English. When eight year old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school, she is confused, frightened and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns in charge at the school, who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she