Native American Books
I AM NOT A NUMBER- GAAWIN GINDAASWIN NDAAWSII
I Am Not A Number is the story of an eight-year-old girl taken from her family and forced to attend a Canadian residential school.
O, Canada. You have the international reputation of being nice, welcoming, open and liberal. And while you, and the rest of the world, love to boast in these attributes, rarely discussed is the dark history of abuses of your First Nations people. Written in both Nishnaabemwin Nbisiing Ojibwe and English, I Am Not A Number is the story of an eight-year-old girl taken from her family and forced to attend a Canadian residential school. Forced to learn a language that is not hers, a faith that is not hers and a culture that she doesn’t belong to, Irene, struggles to retain a sense of her own identity. Based on the true story author’s grandmother, this is a history that should never be erased.