Beautiful Scars : Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Hopi Jean Little First-Novel Award 2023

Jean Little First-Novel Award 2023

John Loxley

Case Critical

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

British Columbia as well as Gitxsan property law and governance

Beautiful Scars : Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Hopi Jean Little First-Novel Award 2023In 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