Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described

The text is illustrated with many drawings and maps

forged through the loss and pain of the past

Named for the Ojibwe word for little bear

and shows how non-indigenous communities uniquely deploy Native identities in the direct construction of colonial geographies

Gaawin Gindaaswin Ndaawsii: I Am Not a Number coloring books Black Elk Speaks has movedDual 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