4.6 stars on Amazon and 4.0 on Goodreads Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature Tilly has always known she’s part Lakota on her dad’s side. She’s grown up with the traditional teachings of her grandma, relishing the life lessons of her beloved mentor. But it isn’t until an angry man shouts something on the street that Tilly realizes her mom is Aboriginal, too- a Cree woman taken from her own parents as a baby. Loosely based on author Monique Gray Smith’s own life, this revealing, important work of creative nonfiction tells the story of a young indigenous woman coming of age in Canada in the 1980s. With compassion, insight and humor, Gray Smith illuminates the 20th-century history of Canada‘s First People’s – forced displacement, residential schools, tuberculosis hospitals, the Sixties Scoop. In a spirit of hope, this unique story captures the irrepressible resilience of Tilly, and of Indigenous peoples everywhere.