Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii / I Am Not A Number Drama and body parts and appendages

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The way Metis and First Nations women made their way into Canadian society are explored in the essays about Metis clothing makers

The essays discuss the lives of individual women such as Anahareo

and land claim negotiations put the Dene on the leading edge of Canada's native rights movement

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii / I Am Not A Number Drama and body parts and appendagesGaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii I Am Not A Number is the first children's picture book by Ojibwe educator Jenny Kay Dupuis from Nipissing First Nation in Ontario. This book has been translated into Nishnaabemwin (Ojibwe), Nbisiing dialect by Muriel Sawyer and Geraldine McLeod and contributions by Tory Fisher. Dupuis retells the story of her grandmother Irene Couchie Dupuis taken to residential school at the age of eight in 1928. The book opens with the