Who do you consider essential to understanding who you are?

[Cait]

Kokum, the grandmother in Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead, resonated strongly with wicherwill. "Kokum's entire life is a teaching, her very way of moving through the world an homage and living testament to an entire people whose identity the Canadian government tried to systematically and brutally stamp out." (Cannonball Read 13)