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My Name is Amanda Johnson, and I am Native American on my mother’s side. My family is Anishinaabe, also known as Ojibwe, from the Great Lakes region of the US and Canada. I claim this heritage with pride, yet most of what I know about my Native culture is thanks to my relatives’ deliberate and purposeful decision to find a way back to our culture over time.