Beautiful Scars : Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Hopi Nat and Bill experience their

Nat and Bill experience their cultural differences and accommodation of each other’s perspectives and world views

and hummingbird in Northwest Coast art style

Jean Little First-Novel Award 2023

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This two-eyed seeing approach takes young readers on a journey through one full year in Mi’kma’ki

Beautiful Scars : Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Hopi Nat and Bill experience theirIn mid life, in his 50s, Wilson learned that the parents who raised him were not his birth parents; that, in fact, he was adopted and that his biological mother and father were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve, just outside of Montreal. Grappling with this newfound sense of himself plunged Wilson into a quest for his heritage and his truth, and led to the writing of his bestselling autobiography, Beautiful Scars (Doubleday Canada). The book is a