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3 weeks ago | 
thespec.com | Shari Narine
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson admits she was worried that when her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead was finally published it would no longer be relevant. “I wrote the book at a different time. Trump wasn’t elected yet,” said Betasamosake Simpson.
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3 weeks ago | 
pentictonherald.ca | Shari Narine
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson admits she was worried that when her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead was finally published it would no longer be relevant. “I wrote the book at a different time. Trump wasn't elected yet,” said Betasamosake Simpson.
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3 weeks ago | 
windspeaker.com | Shari Narine
Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson admits she was worried that when her book Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead was finally published it would no longer be relevant. “I wrote the book at a different time. Trump wasn't elected yet,” said Betasamosake Simpson.
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3 weeks ago | 
windspeaker.com | Shari Narine
By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative ReporterDr. Robin Wall Kimmerer says it isn’t always easy walking between two worlds, that of Indigenous knowledge and that of western science. And that’s where the braiding of sweetgrass comes in. Kimmerer is a mother, botanist, writer, environmental biology professor and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Shari Narine
“We’ve always said that, in this community, to be able to understand where you want to go, you need to know where you come from. I think this book is a cornerstone in that,” said Ron Quintal, past president of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. Quintal was one of a number of people that non-Indigenous author Peter Fortna relied on to write The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. It was published last month by the University of Calgary Press.
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1 month ago | 
pentictonherald.ca | Shari Narine
Updated with an open access download link in last paragraph. “We've always said that, in this community, to be able to understand where you want to go, you need to know where you come from. I think this book is a cornerstone in that,” said Ron Quintal, past president of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. Quintal was one of a number of people that non-Indigenous author Peter Fortna relied on to write The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History.
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1 month ago | 
pentictonherald.ca | Shari Narine
“We've always said that, in this community, to be able to understand where you want to go, you need to know where you come from. I think this book is a cornerstone in that,” said Ron Quintal, past president of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. Quintal was one of a number of people that non-Indigenous author Peter Fortna relied on to write The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. It was published last month by the University of Calgary Press.
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1 month ago | 
windspeaker.com | Shari Narine
“We've always said that, in this community, to be able to understand where you want to go, you need to know where you come from. I think this book is a cornerstone in that,” said Ron Quintal, past president of the Fort McKay Métis Nation. Quintal was one of a number of people that non-Indigenous author Peter Fortna relied on to write The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History. It was published last month by the University of Calgary Press.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Shari Narine
CBC’s competition Canada Reads recently celebrated a memoir published almost a decade ago. “I am grateful that they picked the book,” said Ma-Nee Chacaby, Ojibwe-Cree author of A Two-Spirit Journey. “I didn’t ever think it was ever going to go anywhere. I just wanted other First Nations to start writing their stories. That was my main thing. Maybe if I write, they’ll follow.”A Two-Spirit Journey was published in 2016 by the University of Manitoba Press.
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1 month ago | 
windspeaker.com | Shari Narine
CBC’s competition Canada Reads recently celebrated a memoir published almost a decade ago. “I am grateful that they picked the book,” said Ma-Nee Chacaby, Ojibwe-Cree author of A Two-Spirit Journey. “I didn't ever think it was ever going to go anywhere. I just wanted other First Nations to start writing their stories. That was my main thing. Maybe if I write, they’ll follow.”A Two-Spirit Journey was published in 2016 by the University of Manitoba Press.
