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She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier at 4:00 am NPR For as long as she can remember, Danita Bilozaze knew that the name on her birth certificate, Danita Loth, didn t reflect her Indigenous identity. From the stories her mother recounted to her, she knew that Catholic missionaries had changed her family s name. Her great-grandfather, a man known as Lor Bilozaze, was written into priests logs as Loth Bilozaze. Government record books in Canada ultimately dropped the Bilozaze, and Loth became their surname. She never felt a connection with that name. But Bilozaze, which means the makers in her native Denesuline language, she said, is integral to the preservation of her identity and culture as a member of the Cold Lake First Nations.

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