On the day I was born, Papa announced me to the village: “Here is my son Loo-WEE!” The neighbors ..
It’s been more than four hours since we left our home in Kuala Lumpur to get to this shining, anonymous ..
Kavi laughs as much as the others for the rest of the evening, but I sense she is feeling anxious about ..
When Mama tucks me in at night, her eyes tell me I’m a miracle. In those moments when she’s ..
We put on plays, and we sing songs. We give and get presents, too. Some children get a present on each ..
I remember my first Ramadan as clearly as if it were yesterday. And by this I mean the first time I kept ..
“Hey, Adam, is the president mom’s boss now?” “No, Yousif, the president’s ..
Tonight my face was Seafoam Blue. Not my whole face. Just a light swish across my fore- head, the tops ..
Climbing the stairs, I headed to the bedroom in the back of the house that I shared with Eddie and Billy. ..
Many years ago, by a lake in Northern Canada, there lived a girl named Marie. She spoke French and she spoke ..
Grandfather has told me that I must have the night eyes of an owl, a nose as keen as a bear’s and ears ..
Shannon watched her grandma turn the jingles. Not many people know how to do this. “Grandma, did you dance ..
She dreamed about the jingle-dress dancers, stepping softly to the ground. She dreamed about the fancy ..
Introduction My name is Olemaun Pokiak–that’s OO-lee-mawn. Such a name probably sounds strange ..
Wild rice, which the Ojibway call mahnomin, has long been an important food for Native Americans in the Upper ..
After our examinations, we’re reunited with Fred and assigned to our new home. Expect it isn’t home. ..
A khimar is a flowing scarf that my mommy wears. Before she walks out the door each day, she wraps one around ..
My mom has her own personal arsenal of silence, and she wields it like the Force, bending me to her will. ..
That fall, Sylvia and her brother had to attend Hoover Elementary, better known as “the Mexican school,” ..
Blue is the hijab Mom likes to wear. It’s a scarf she uses to cover her hair. Gold is the dome ..
Mama Some days, like today and yesterday and probably tomorrow- all my missing gets jumbled up inside ..
The aged Indian woman and her granddaughter pulled the fish they had netted onto the shore. Back and forth ..
“What is a residential school?” Amik asks. “Residential schools were big schools in faraway ..
