I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree Family

I Am My Name: A Girl's Journey to Finding Her Cree FamilyAn 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

the senses to attention--to see the moonbeams blossoming on the windowsill

And Kate Beane

citing the restoration work of urban Indigenous people in Seattle

a growing body of resources designed to document the teaching and experience of Indigenous elders

When seven Lakota sisters venture deep into the forest to gather chokecherries

when money ran out

the book is accompanied by a CD

The stories in Lucky Tomorrow move through settings drawn from the path of the author's own life: Seattle

Never afraid of controversy and always the first to fight

challenging world

With this foundational collection at its center

Her talent grew