Audio Name Pronunciation
Kim Sigafus |
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Kim Sigafus: My name is Kim Sigafus. I write under the name Sigafus. I'm actually Kim McIver. I recently remarried. So I write all my books under Kim Sigafus. I don't have any books under Kim McIver. My Ojibwa name, and I'm Ojibwa, my family is from White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, and my Ojibwa name is Bekaadiziikwe. Kim was a little easier than Bekaadiziikwe. But Bekaadiziikwe means quiet woman or a quiet soul. I was named by my uncle. My father passed away when I was one years old, and so my uncle Jimmy named me. And I must have been a quiet baby because I don't know about being a quiet woman anymore. But that is my native name.
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