My name is seepeetza: 30th anniversary edition - shirley sterling

Sterling, Shirley: - SHIRLEY STERLING (1948-2005) was Nlakapamux.

She twice received the Native Indian Teacher Education Alumni Award and held a PhD in Education from the University of British Columbia.

My Name Is Seepeetza is based on her childhood experiences at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

Acclaimed in Canada and the United States, the book won the Sheila A.

Egoff Childrens Literature Prize and was a finalist for the Governor Generals Literary Award.

Shirley also won the Laura Steinman Award for Childrens Literature.