Going Back Home Women Edna Manitowabi

Edna Manitowabi

Johnny used storytelling to teach Dene youth and others to understand and celebrate Dene traditions and knowledge

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Going Back Home Women Edna ManitowabiGoing Back Home is the story of Noreens experiences before and after residential school and foster homes. Through a series of dreams, which at times appear as real life to her, Noreen tries to make sense of all that has happened to her and her family especially her siblings during and after their lives in residential school and foster homes. She questions her indecisiveness; her explicable feeling of inadequacy and her powerlessness. It is only after