Julian Brave NoiseCat's Survival Story
Julian Brave NoiseCat's story is both personal and ancestral, shaped by his Indigenous Canadian father and white mother.
After experiencing cultural genocide, NoiseCat says, living one's life becomes an existential question. His new memoir, We Survived the Night, explores this theme.
Minutes after being born, Julian's father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, was thrown away. He was found by staff at St. Joseph's Mission School for Indigenous Canadians as they prepared to burn the garbage.
"My family never talked about it, and my father didn't really know the specifics around what happened when he was born and how he was found,"
Julian only learned the full story of his father's birth as an adult. Previously, he had heard what he thought were ghost stories about babies being born at St. Joseph's mission and put into the trash incinerator.
Author's summary: Julian Brave NoiseCat shares his survival story.