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By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u200b \u200bCBC\u2019s competition Canada Reads recently celebrated a memoir published almost a decade ago. \u201cI am grateful that they picked the book,\u201d said Ma-Nee Chacaby, Ojibwe-Cree author of A Two-Spirit Journey. \u201cI didn’t ever think it was ever going to go anywhere. I just wanted other First Nations to start writing their stories. That was my main thing. Maybe if I write, they\u2019ll follow.\u201d A Two-Spirit Journey was published in 2016 by the University of Manitoba Press. Chacaby, who is visually impaired, told her story to non-Indigenous close friend and professional writer Mary Louisa Plummer over Skype during the course of several months in 2013. Plummer typed it and then read the first draft to Chacaby, who rounded it out with additional material…. <\/p>\n

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By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter \u200b \u200bCBC\u2019s competition Canada Reads recently celebrated a memoir published almost a decade ago. \u201cI am grateful that they picked the book,\u201d said Ma-Nee Chacaby, Ojibwe-Cree author of A Two-Spirit Journey. \u201cI didn’t ever think it was ever going to go anywhere. I just wanted other First Nations to start writing their stories. That was my main thing. Maybe if I write, they\u2019ll follow.\u201d A Two-Spirit Journey was published in 2016 by the University of Manitoba Press. Chacaby, who is visually impaired, told her story to non-Indigenous close friend and professional writer Mary Louisa Plummer over Skype during the course of several months in 2013. Plummer typed it and then read the first draft to Chacaby, who rounded it out with additional material.... <\/p>\n

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