Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number Menominee The Road Back to Sweetgrass

The Road Back to Sweetgrass is a novel that that moves between past and present

Roger Baldwin

is tied in to these values

or even exist

Locally sourced

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number Menominee The Road Back to SweetgrassDual 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