Stella Pretty Sounding Flute and Lola Columbus (Dakota) and Celane Not Help Him and Cecelia Hernandez Montgomery (Lakota) share recollections of early family life interrupted by years at government boarding schools designed to eradicate tribal culture

everyday cultural practices

Wagamese recalled living on the street

These are the kinds of questions addressed by contributors to this unusual and pathbreaking book

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I Am Not a Number women Stella Pretty Sounding Flute andWhen 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 being told to do otherwise. When she goes home for summer holidays, her parents decide never to send her away again, but where will she hide and what will happen when her parents disobey the law?