Beautiful Scars : Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Hopi John Loxley

John Loxley

Nat and Bill experience their cultural differences and accommodation of each other’s perspectives and world views

It offers readers a chance to listen to authors’ perspectives in their own words

This two-eyed seeing approach takes young readers on a journey through one full year in Mi’kma’ki

The last two chapters examine recent history following contact and what the future may hold for Aboriginal Peoples

Beautiful Scars : Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home Hopi John LoxleyIn mid life, in his 50s, Wilson learned that the parents who raised him were not his birth parents; that, in fact, he was adopted and that his biological mother and father were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve, just outside of Montreal. Grappling with this newfound sense of himself plunged Wilson into a quest for his heritage and his truth, and led to the writing of his bestselling autobiography, Beautiful Scars (Doubleday Canada). The book is a