I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family Oneida Photographs by Greg Gent

Photographs by Greg Gent

University of Winnipeg

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

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

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

I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family Oneida Photographs by Greg GentAn 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