Hey, I've been falling apart!
What I've been reading this season:
An Inconvenient Indian, by Thomas King: An ironic, hilarious, heartbreaking and highly readable history of how the Canadian and American treatment of Indigenous peoples has gone.
The New Jim Crow: Documenting the American storyline since slavery of how the Black experience has been targeted and challenged, deliberately, by government choices.
Surviving Canada - Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal: This collection of essays, history, articles, poetry and storytelling is earth-shattering, heartbreaking and transformative. There's no going back after reading this. The myth of Canada will be shattered. For me, it has left me broken open, wondering what could possibly come next in this wicked chapter of the world's hidden history.
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - Bob Joseph: A thin volume that captures the essentials of how the Canadian colonial experiment has subjugated First Nations people over the years, the consequences, t…
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