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Not My Girl follows the return of a young Inuit girl to her community after attending a residential religious school. During her years away, she has forgotten her native language and the practical skills of hunting and fishing that defined her identity. Upon reentering her familyβs life, she is treated as an outsider and is invisible to her own mother. In contrast to her alienated physical state, the girl finds solace and connection in the books she acquired while at school. The narrative illuminates the personal toll of residential schooling and the struggle to regain cultural ties.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Christy Jordan-Fenton
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