The White Girl: True North Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508619062)

My name is Dawn Kostelnik, I am the White Girl. I learned about being different at a very young age. I believe that prejudice is not about skin colour, it is about minority. Insecurity and meanness can be cultivated in the hearts of persons of any colour. What a horrible disability to pass along to our children. As a child, I learn to fight. I moved to Whitehorse Yukon from the communities in the NWT. The Yukon lives next door to Alaska. I am very excited about this move, I would no longer be a minority. In this very 'civilized' city I now learn that I am a White Indian. I talk funny and have not yet learned how to have two faces. How can you tell who your friends are? The vice-principal at my school recommends that I quit school, I am in grade 10. It was excellent advice. At the age of twenty eight I became the single mother of Kaitlin aged fifteen months and Bobby aged five years. Sometimes there was not enough to eat. Minimum wage, even working several jobs was not enough to support two children on, I went back to school. I have four years of University English and on occasion my sing song accent slips through my lips. It flows through my fingers and shows up in my stories. I no longer feel the need to control my back country Irish Burr as it has sometimes been referred to, it slips out when I feel comfortable. My father called it our 'Northern Accent', it is a unique part of who I am. I am grandmother to Lucas and Everett. My grandsons are six weeks apart in age and have just arrived in this world of wonders. I expect this new chapter of life to be one of the best. Currently I live in a log house on the edge of the Boreal Forest on the outskirts of the City of Whitehorse Yukon. I lived on an old wooden boat off the coasts of Alaska and B.C, that way of life calls me still. The book The Adventures of the Audrey Eleanor document this life choice, great stories. My gypsy blood dictates change, who knows where the next Adventure will take me, I hope you will travel with me. Thank you for buying my book my friend. sincerely Dawn www.thewhitegirl.ca