For Kaska Dena author Wendy Proverbs, her second book Letti in Progress for young readers is as close as she's going to get to telling her real-life story right now.“There are definitely aspects of myself in Letti,” said Proverbs of her 11-year-old character. “When I was adopted, Indigenous people were kind of looked down upon and the non-Indigenous society was there to ‘raise us up’ and to assimilate, basically.”