Shari Narine

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Contributing Editor, Sweetgrass at The Aboriginal Multi-Media Society

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Braiding the three strands of ways of knowing is the only way to save the earth

2 days 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.
Fort McKay Métis community stands strong in its history

1 week 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.
Fort McKay Métis community stands strong in its history

1 week 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.
Fort McKay Métis community stands strong in its history

1 week 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.
Fort McKay Métis community stands strong in its history

1 week 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.
A Two-Spirit Journey is the ‘book to change the narrative’ in 2025

2 weeks 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.
A Two-Spirit Journey is the ‘book to change the narrative’ in 2025

2 weeks 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.
Author explores aspects of ‘voice’ in new poetry collection

3 weeks ago | thespec.com | Shari Narine

How powerful is voice? Whether written or spoken, says poet and spoken word artist Tawahum Bige, “voice as a weapon…creates that awareness and it can also galvanize change.”Bige’s lived experience is “the most central part” in their second collection of poetry, Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells. “This is what developing a voice looks like for me…”Bige, who grew up in Surrey, B.C., is Dene Cree Métis on their mother’s side and Hungarian and British on their father’s side.
Author explores aspects of ‘voice’ in new poetry collection

3 weeks ago | windspeaker.com | Shari Narine

How powerful is voice? Whether written or spoken, says poet and spoken word artist Tawahum Bige, “voice as a weapon…creates that awareness and it can also galvanize change.”Bige’s lived experience is “the most central part” in their second collection of poetry, Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells. “This is what developing a voice looks like for me…”Bige, who grew up in Surrey, B.C., is Dene Cree Métis on their mother’s side and Hungarian and British on their father’s side.
Book explores the Inuit knowledge that helped find Franklin expedition ships

1 month ago | thespec.com | Shari Narine

Inuit interaction with the Franklin expedition is the thread that runs through The Land Was Always Used: An Inuit Oral History of the Franklin Expedition, but it’s the life of the Inuit in Qikiqtaq (King William Island) that is the heartbeat of the story. “(The Inuit) used everything: the ocean, the air, the land.

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