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Truth Telling
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada | Michelle Good
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A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada. With authority and insight, Truth Telling examines a wide range of Indigenous issues framed by Michelle Good’s personal experience and knowledge. From racism, broken treaties, and cultural pillaging, to the value of Indigenous lives and the importance of Indigenous literature, this collection reveals facts about Indigenous life in Canada that are both devastating and enlightening. Truth Telling also demonstrates the myths underlying Canadian history and the human cost of colonialism, showing how it continues to underpin modern social institutions in Canada. Passionate and uncompromising, Michelle Good affirms that meaningful and substantive reconciliation hinges on recognition of Indigenous self-determination, the return of lands, and a just redistribution of the wealth that has been taken from those lands without regard for Indigenous peoples. Truth Telling is essential reading for those looking to acknowledge the past and understand the way forward.
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Kazzie
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Really good. Quick, approachable writing. Very necessary learnings for settlers - deeply uncomfortable at times. But seeing the resiliency of Indigenous Peoples was beautiful

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In this collection of essays, Michelle Good urges all Canadians to take an honest reassessment of our country and its history. To recognize the colonial genocide wrought upon Indigenous peoples and the historical acts, policies, and lack of protections that continue to this day. She goes on to discuss some of the steps needed for genuine reconciliation to occur. Would recommend this for all Canadians.

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Friday Reads July 7: lesbian history; cake; flowers; queer & punk memoirs; Indigenous essays; graphic novels; anxiety disorder; pack horse library project; fairytale retellings; foraging & more

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