![]() ![]() The school contains Eskimos (note: the characters in this novel refer to themselves as this), Indians, and white students, who are constantly segregated even in the cafeteria. My Name is Not Easy is about Aamaugak or “Luke” – an Inupiaq teenager – who is sent to Sacred Heart School – a boarding school hundreds of miles away with his brothers in the early 1960s. The book does a fair job at telling these stories. ![]() As one could imagine, those experiences were not very rosy. That required the state of Alaska to fund schools no matter how small the settlement was. ![]() They had to travel hundreds and even thousands of miles to attend boarding schools for months or years at a time prior to the Molly Hootch settlement of 1976. In the case of My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson, it showed the experiences of Alaskan students from the vast region known as the Bush. Fiction also has the power to bring unknown events to a wider audience. As I have mentioned in prior reviews, fiction allows writers to create stories that are based around certain facts, and they permit readers to take a look at how the people involved feel. ![]()
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