Our voice of fire A memoir of a warrior rising

While Indigenous women make up 4 percent of the Canadian population, they account for 24 percent of the female homicide victims. Debut memoirist Morin, a journalist of Cree, Iroquois, and French heritage, writes honestly about growing up in Alberta, Canada, cutting straight to the bone and exposing the realities of generational trauma and the experience of being an Indigenous woman. Morin's kohkum (grandmother) was forced into a residential school, causing aftershocks of suffering in her immediate family: an environment ripe with violence, sexual abuse, mental illness, and addiction that eventually lands Morin in a group home for troubled teens. This becomes the epicenter of Morin's rage against the colonization machine and leads her down a broken path. After making it out of the group home, Morin has to choose between following a destructive path or carving a new trail, and selects the latter, becoming a voice for her indigenous Canadian community and working as a sought-after journalist. Her powerful and necessary work is required reading for all readers seeking to better know the realities and buried truths of the Indigenous experience.