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"Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't? Colonialism and the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People are explored in Natasha Donovan's beautiful illustrations."--… (mais)
Spiritual book telling an unfortunate truth for indigenous women and girls. In the past indigenous people were taken from their families and forced in to a christian and eurocentric culture, Now with the violence, assault, and kidnapping rates being incredibly high many girls are missing...stolen. Unable to keep families together or in better conditions. This is one story of many. Then there is the bond. The beauty among the culture. For young girls to learn the traditional ways. On their first moon cycle going through the berry fast. Sweat huts, sage, community, activism, and so many other things tying them closer to their identity and protecting them as two spirited people. I deeply enjoyed this as i don't know any indigenous people i support and respect them and hope they get justice and peace.
It ended far too abruptly and I would have liked to see the story more fleshed-out. I've just noticed there's a number 2 so the series will likely remedy these issues but I dislike being given the story piecemeal. ( )
Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Dez is worried because her kokum (grandmother) has diabetes, and after an amputation, social services isn't going to allow Dez to stay with her. Dez runs away rather than be put in a group home, an echo of the residential schools of the (not-so-distant) past. Throughout, protective spirits drawn in blue hover near the girls, while malevolent forces in black or gray represent danger lurking.
Back matter: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People; Statistics about MMIWG2S, More about MMIWG2S, Further Reading ( )
"Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut, Surviving the City, is a story about womanhood, friendship, resilience, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan's Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape - they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces. Will Dez's community find her before it's too late? Will Miikwan be able to cope if they don't? Colonialism and the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit People are explored in Natasha Donovan's beautiful illustrations."--
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