Silence to Strength : Writings and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop Nakoda The leadership of Innu people

The leadership of Innu people is highlighted in the chapter about Chief Katie Rich

He grew up in the traditional setting of hunting

Each brief story adds information about First Nations cultural teachings seamlessly

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent has won Liz Howard the Griffin Poetry Prize (2016)

Silence to Strength : Writings and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop Nakoda The leadership of Innu peopleChristine Miskonoodinkwe Smith is a Saulteaux woman from Peguis First Nation. From the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non Indigenous families. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be known as the Sixties Scoop. The lasting disruption from the loss of family and culture