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To Sam
For Review Only
— CAROLE LINDSTROM
This book is dedicated to my grandmother, Flora Merrick, who was Métis and Ojibwe.
My grandmother’s Ojibwe name was “Gezeeb” (Water Cleansing Woman)
and she was a band member of the Long Plain First Nation—Treaty One.”
— LINUS WOODS

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