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From Uncle she gathers stories of long-ago traditions

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Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number animals of the warm heart ofDual 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