Julian Brave NoiseCat's Story of Survival
Julian Brave NoiseCat, son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother, shares his personal and ancestral survival story in his new memoir, We Survived the Night.
His father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, was thrown away minutes after birth, only to be discovered by Joseph's Mission School for Indigenous Canadians as they prepared to burn the garbage.
"My family never talked about it, and my father didn't really know the specifics around what happened when he was born and how he was found,"
Julian only learned the full story of his father's birth as an adult, after initially hearing what he thought were "ghost stories" about babies being born at St. Joseph's mission and put into the trash incinerator.
Author's summary: Julian Brave NoiseCat shares his story of survival and ancestral heritage.