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![Mike Pinay](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg'%20viewBox%3D'0%200%20510%20315'%2F%3E "For her project "Signs of Your Identity," photographer Daniella Zalcman juxtaposed her subjects against the former residential schools they once attended in Saskatchewan. In 2008, the Canadian government apologized for the residential school system, which a commission officially labeled "cultural genocide" last year. "It was the worst 10 years of my life," said Mike Pinay, pictured against the residential school he attended from 1953 to 1963. "I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then. I was a number." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
Pulitzer Center Update
FotoEvidence Book Award 'Signs of Your Identity' Launch and Exhibit
Photographer uses double exposure portraits to tell the stories of indigenous Canadians placed in...
October 26, 2016 -
Lesson Plans
Signs of Your Identity Curricular Resources
Links to curricular resources for Daniella Zalcman’s Signs of Your Identity project.
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Students discuss culture, identity, and the impact of government-mandated residential schools for Indigenous children in the U.S. and Canada using photography and reporting by Daniella Zalcman.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Pulitzer Center's 10th Anniversary Celebration
Grantees, student fellows, industry and education partners joined the Pulitzer Center team to...
October 18, 2016 -
Pulitzer Center Update
2016 Student Fellows Washington Weekend Highlights
This year, 31 Pulitzer Center student fellows traveled to 24 different countries to report. In...
October 11, 2016
![The food at school is unfamiliar. Hala just pokes at her "wiener dogs." She struggles to open a milk carton while the girl beside her wrestles with a ketchup packet](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-09-16/5-img_7035.jpg.webp?h=82f92a78&itok=ysC1_1Ds "The food at school is unfamiliar. Hala just pokes at her "wiener dogs." She struggles to open a milk carton while the girl beside her wrestles with a ketchup packet. Image by Robin Shulman. Des Moines, IA, 2016.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/10-26-16/mike_pinay-1.jpg.webp?h=d9bcd22f&itok=uDvmm9l4 "For her project "Signs of Your Identity," photographer Daniella Zalcman juxtaposed her subjects against something related to his or her experience with Canada's Indian Residential Schools. In 2008, the Canadian government apologized for the residential school system, which eventually a commission officially labeled "cultural genocide." "It was the worst 10 years of my life," said Mike Pinay, pictured against the residential school he attended from 1953 to 1963. "I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then. I was a number." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
![Mike Pinay](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/03-30-16/mike_pinay.jpg.webp?h=8bf96674&itok=4jm8HmAJ "For her project "Signs of Your Identity," photographer Daniella Zalcman juxtaposed her subjects against the former residential schools they once attended in Saskatchewan. In 2008, the Canadian government apologized for the residential school system, which a commission officially labeled "cultural genocide" last year. "It was the worst 10 years of my life," said Mike Pinay, pictured against the residential school he attended from 1953 to 1963. "I was away from my family from the age of 6 to 16. How do you learn about family? I didn't know what love was. We weren't even known by names back then. I was a number." Image by Daniella Zalcman. Canada, 2015.")
