Kinauvit? What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother Squamish alliances and enemies

alliances and enemies

Susan Jackson

Illustrations are provided by Mary Pheasant

Paul was employed by the Department of Indian Affairs and was the founding executive director of the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq (CMM)

Tekahionwake: E Pauline Johnson's Writings on Native North America edited by English professors Margery Fee and Dory Nason have assembled an anthology of poems

Kinauvit? What’s Your Name? The Eskimo Disc System and a Daughter’s Search for her Grandmother Squamish alliances and enemiesFrom the winner of the 2021 Governor General's Award for literature, a revelatory look into an obscured piece of Canadian history: what was then called the Eskimo Identification Tag SystemIn 2001, Dr. Norma Dunning applied to the Nunavut Beneficiary program, requesting enrolment to legally solidify her existence as an Inuk woman. But in the process, she was faced with a question she could not answer, tied to a colonial institution retired decades ago: