I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family Oneida University of Winnipeg

University of Winnipeg

these characters form a kaleidoscope of stories

Julian Talamantez Brolaski

Photographs by Greg Gent

and greed that destroyed Osage lives and culture in the early 1920's

I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family Oneida University of WinnipegAn 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