Going Back Home Women Edna Manitowabi

Edna Manitowabi

Jane Haladay

Denied her Indigenous status

For many Aboriginal people

and to address the changes she was witnessing due to land dispossession and loss of hunting territory

Going Back Home Women Edna ManitowabiGoing Back Home is the story of Noreens experiences before and after residential school and foster homes. Through a series of dreams, which at times appear as real life to her, Noreen tries to make sense of all that has happened to her and her family especially her siblings during and after their lives in residential school and foster homes. She questions her indecisiveness; her explicable feeling of inadequacy and her powerlessness. It is only after