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A Steady Brightness of Being
A Steady Brightness of Being: Truths, Wisdom, and Love from Celebrated Indigenous Voices | Sara Sinclair, Stephanie Sinclair
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Bringing together voices from across Turtle Island, a groundbreaking collection of letters from Indigenous writers, activists, and thinkersto their ancestors, to future generations, and to themselves. Drawing on the wisdom and personal experience of its esteemed contributors, this first-of-its-kind anthology tackles complex questions of our times to provide a rich tapestry of Indigenous life, past, present, and future. The letters explore the histories that have brought us to this moment, the challenges and crises faced by present-day communities, and the visions that will lead us to a new architecture for thinking about Indigeneity. Taking its structure from the medicine bundletobacco, sage, cedar, and sweetgrassit will stir and empower readers, as well as enrich an essential and ongoing conversation about what reconciliation looks like and what it means to be Indigenous today. CONTRIBUTORS: Billy-Ray Belcourt, Cindy Blackstock, Cody Caetano, Warren Cariou, Norma Dunning, Kyle Edwards, Jennifer Grenz, Jon Hickey, Jessica Johns, Wab Kinew, Terese Marie Mailhot, Kent Monkman, Simon Moya-Smith, Pamela Palmater, Tamara Podemski, Waubgeshig Rice, David A. Robertson, Niigaan Sinclair, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, Zoe Todd, David Treuer, Richard Van Camp, katherena vermette, Jesse Wente, Joshua Whitehead.
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A Steady Brightness of Being, edited by Stephanie and Sara Sinclair (2025 🇨🇦)
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Premise: In memory of the late, great, Senator Murray Sinclair, a collection of open letters written by Indigenous writers from across the continent, to ancestors, descendants, nature, and settler society.

Review: This is a hard book to summarize and one that‘s not really appropriate to critique as such.⬇️

Mattsbookaday These letters come from a wide range of perspectives and attitudes, embodying the exhaustion, hopes, fears, and rage of Indigenous experience ten years after the adoption of the Report of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation. It‘s powerful, frustrating, and often hard to read. That‘s what makes it important.

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