Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number

I Am Not a Number - Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number

Illustrated by Gillian Newland
  • Paperback
  • Second Story Press (2019)
  • SKU: 9781772600995
Regular price $14.95
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Dual-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 goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis's grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada's history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.

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