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Indigenous Book Club - Winter 2020

The Indigenous Book Club resumes this Fall 2020 – stay tuned!

Thanks for joining us at the winter 2020 U of T Indigenous Book Club, featuring a reading from author Lenore Keeshig!

This year's reads have been added to the U of T Libraries collections so please free to borrow

them! Have suggestions for the Indigenous Book Collection at the UTSC Library?

Send your suggestions here: https://utsc.library.utoronto.ca/suggest-book-film-journal-or-other-material.

We look forward to welcoming you at another U of T Indigenous Book Club event!

Please pick and read one item from the list below so that you can actively participate in our fun, thought provoking talks! Of course you are welcome to read all of the material and all of the books (multiple copies) are available in our collection!

We are thrilled to have author Lenore Keeshig join us for a reading from her book, Running on the March Wind.

Lenore Keeshig of the World Clan is a traditional storyteller, poet and an award-winning author from the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation on the Saugeen (Bruce) Peninsula. She works as a naturalist, providing educational programs about the natural and cultural history of the Saugeen/Bruce Peninsula and the Great Lakes.

Lenore's first book of poetry, Running on the March Wind, was published in 2015 by Quattro Press. Before that, her work appeared in a number of anthologies. She has produced three children's books: Bird Talk (1991) and Emma and the Tree (1996), and The Truth about Nibbles (2005) co-authored with her husband, David McLaren. She is the receipient of: Living the Dream Book Award (1993), and an Author's Award (1988).

Indigenous Book Club Spring 2020 - Book Selections

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act by Bob Joseph
Call Number: KE7709 .J67 2018
ISBN: 9780995266599
Publication Date: 2018
Since its creation in 1876, the Indian Act has shaped, controlled, and constrained the lives and opportunities of Indigenous Peoples, and is at the root of many enduring stereotypes. Bob Joseph's book comes at a key time in the reconciliation process, when awareness from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities is at a crescendo. Joseph explains how Indigenous Peoples can step out from under the Indian Act and return to self-government, self-determination, and self-reliance and why doing so would result in a better country for every Canadian. He dissects the complex issues around truth and reconciliation, and clearly demonstrates why learning about the Indian Act's cruel, enduring legacy is essential for the country to move toward true reconciliation. (From Indigenous Relations Press)
Hope Matters by Lee Maracle; Columpa Bobb; Tania Carter
Call Number: PS8576 .A6175 H67 2019
ISBN: 9781771664974
Publication Date: 2019-05-15
Hope Matters, written by multiple award-winner Lee Maracle, in collaboration with her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. Maracle states that the book, "is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters." During their youth, Bobb and Carter wrote poetry with their mother, and eventually they all decided that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. Written collaboratively by all three women, the poems in Hope Matters blend their voices together into a shared song of hope and reconciliation.
Clearing the Plains by James Daschuk; Elizabeth A. Fenn (Foreword by)
Call Number: E78 .C2 D28 2013
ISBN: 9780889772960
Publication Date: 2013-05-13
The award-winning book about how Canada's first prime minister starved Indigenous peoples in the pursuit of nationhood Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. This new edition of Clearing the Plains has a foreword by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Elizabeth Fenn, an opening by Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, and explanations of the book's influence by leading Canadian historians. Called "one of the most important books of the twenty-first century" by the Literary Review of Canada, it was named a "Book of the Year" by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, the Writers' Trust, and won the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, among many others.
Running on the March wind by Lenore Keeshig
Call Number: PS8571 .E4456 R85 2015
ISBN: 9781927443804
Publication Date: 2015
This is the long-awaited debut collection by a widely-anthologized master poet. While it is intended foremost for an Aboriginal audience, the poetry's scope and quality create an extraordinary opportunity for all readers to see through Aboriginal eyes. There are exquisite lyrical portrayals of the Saugeen region and other parts of Southern Ontario; biting commentary on the historic injustices to First Nations people; engaging magical realism and native mythology, featuring wily tricksters and giving form to dreams; touching treatments of the bonds between Elders and children; visions of suffering and violence laced with consoling beauty; celebration of the solace of trees and water and even the company of bears; lamentation, elegy, indignation, and affection and deep love for a region and those living there. ~ from publisher

Books - Additional Materials

21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
This CBC site gives you access to interviews with the author of the book, Bob Joseph.
Bob Joseph believes Indigenous reconciliation can be realized sooner rather than later
An interview with Bob Joseph regarding his book - interviewed by Shelagh Rogers of the CBC.
Hope Matters
Several interviews with the author of the book of poetry, Hope Matters.

Interview with Lee Maracle for Book*hug.

'Clearing the Plains' confronts Canada's colonialism
An interview for rabble.ca between James Daschuk and Matthew Brett.
TNC: James Daschuk on Clearing the Plains
Interview with the author on his book, Clearing the Plains.

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Indigenous Book Club - Winter 2020

The Indigenous Book Club resumes this Fall 2020 – stay tuned!

Indigenous Book Club Spring 2020 - Book Selections

Books - Additional Materials

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