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Author of Becoming Kin
What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity?
Patty Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history. Join her in an intimate sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality. You'll walk away with a call to retrace your steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honour rather than violate treaties, see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and unravel the history we have been taught.
Krawec is the author of Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec's memoir braids together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, with Indigenous ways of knowing, and vivid threads of communal memory.
Presented in partnership with A Different Drummer Books. A Different Drummer Books will be onsite selling books for signing after the talk.
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Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer from Lac Seul First Nation. She is the cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast and cofounder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation, which collects funds and disperses them to Indigenous people and organizations. Her work has been published in Sojourners and Canadian Living. She is active with the Fort Erie Native Friendship Center and the Strong Water Singers. Krawec is a member of Chippawa Presbyterian Church and lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
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