My Name Is Not Easy (Audible Audio Edition) Debby Dahl Edwardson Nick Podehl Amy Rubinate Brilliance Audio Books
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Luke knows his I´nupiaq name is full of sounds white people can't say. He knows he'll have to leave it behind when he and his brothers are sent to boarding school hundreds of miles from their Arctic village.
At Sacred Heart School things are different. Instead of family, there are students - Eskimo, Indian, White - who line up on different sides of the cafeteria like there's some kind of war going on. And instead of comforting words like tutu and maktak, there's English. Speaking I´nupiaq - or any native language - is forbidden. And Father Mullen, whose fury is like a force of nature, is ready to slap down those who disobey.
Luke struggles to survive at Sacred Heart. Buthe's not the only one. There's smart-aleck Amiq, a daring leader - if he doesn't self-destruct; Chickie, blond and freckled, a different kind of outsider; and small quiet Junior, noticing everything and writing it all down. Each has their own story to tell. But once their separate stories come together, things at Sacred Heart School - and in the wider world - will never be the same.
My Name Is Not Easy (Audible Audio Edition) Debby Dahl Edwardson Nick Podehl Amy Rubinate Brilliance Audio Books
Was outrageous. We!I meaning ( mostly) people took several generations of Native children from home, family and their culture, and tried to turn them into their versions of white men. They cut their hair, beat them for speaking their own language and generally made them feel like savages, hard headed animals and it's totally not possible to turn such animals into decent hard working Christians . While this book is about one such high school in Alaska, the same thing happened throughout the country (and worse) The forcible taking of Native children from their culture caused long standing familial, behavioral, and emotional problems for both the children and those they left behind. Some sociologists refer to these as "soul wounds" = and they will be a long time healing,That being said, this particular school wasn't as awful to the boarding students as some - there were some good times, the hard-won friendships between the Indian groups and Eskimo groups were an interesting story. There were several white children there, too (there were simply no high schools in the far north at that time) and they added another set of experiences to the story, What happened to the youngest brother of the three main characters is probably more realistic, and happend with a great degree of regularity - he was a year too young for the boarding school, and was given for adoption to a "good Catholic family" in Texas. The older brothers had no idea of where he had gone or why and the head of the school did not deliver the child's letters to his brothers. How they overcame some of these obstacles as they grew up and became more cognizant of white man's ways is the best part of a very good coming-of-age story in very difficult conditions.
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My Name Is Not Easy (Audible Audio Edition) Debby Dahl Edwardson Nick Podehl Amy Rubinate Brilliance Audio Books Reviews
This book is about how the Native American, and Eskimo children were schooled in the United States. In order to comply with national policy, they flew these young children down to a state in the lower 48. The story is told by a young boy who was called Luke because no white person could say his name. His parents were confused when their youngest child was not quite 5 years old, but had to be in school when he was five, so they sent him. When the school discovered that he was not five, they simply gave him away to some family and his real family never heard from him again. The schooling was done in a Catholic School so all the children had to learn to be Catholic Christians; their own traditions were debunked and discouraged. They were educated, but in such an institutional atmosphere, the adults never realized they were teaching two races of children American Indians and Eskimos, they just all looked alike to the staff members. It is at once a fascinating story of one young boy, and at the same time a sobering look at what our government considers education and how it was to be administered.
The most powerful stories have qualities that are unique and universal. Debby Dahl Edwardson's MY NAME IS NOT EASY is such a story. In some ways, it is a classic boarding school story, and in others it is uniquely Alaskan. Edwardson draws characters from distinct backgrounds and cultures and throws them together in a strict Catholic boarding school where they clash and bond and grow together. There is heartbreaking loss, there is new love, and there is a growing understanding of the importance of standing up for what you believe in and the power of civil disobedience. Edwardson's lyrical prose draws the reader in to the landscape and culture of northern Alaska, a world that is foreign to most of us. Yet she does it in a way that is not preachy or didactic. She evokes a world that is in transition yet holding on to and respecting its traditions. The characters through whom she tells this tale are richly drawn, and their voices are strong. Their pain is real, as is their joy. In the end, I breathed a sigh of relief, but I also felt a strong sense of loss. I didn't want to leave this place and these lives. I wanted to know what happened next. But, as the best writers do, Edwardson has left that to the reader to ponder and to understand. MY NAME IS NOT EASY is a special book by a talented writer who provides a window into a world so different from my own, and yet not so different after all.
Was outrageous. We!I meaning ( mostly) people took several generations of Native children from home, family and their culture, and tried to turn them into their versions of white men. They cut their hair, beat them for speaking their own language and generally made them feel like savages, hard headed animals and it's totally not possible to turn such animals into decent hard working Christians . While this book is about one such high school in Alaska, the same thing happened throughout the country (and worse) The forcible taking of Native children from their culture caused long standing familial, behavioral, and emotional problems for both the children and those they left behind. Some sociologists refer to these as "soul wounds" = and they will be a long time healing,
That being said, this particular school wasn't as awful to the boarding students as some - there were some good times, the hard-won friendships between the Indian groups and Eskimo groups were an interesting story. There were several white children there, too (there were simply no high schools in the far north at that time) and they added another set of experiences to the story, What happened to the youngest brother of the three main characters is probably more realistic, and happend with a great degree of regularity - he was a year too young for the boarding school, and was given for adoption to a "good Catholic family" in Texas. The older brothers had no idea of where he had gone or why and the head of the school did not deliver the child's letters to his brothers. How they overcame some of these obstacles as they grew up and became more cognizant of white man's ways is the best part of a very good coming-of-age story in very difficult conditions.
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