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Author Maracle, Lee

Title My conversations with Canadians / Lee Maracle
Edition First edition
Published [Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : BookThug, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Essais ; no. 4
Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 4.
Contents Meeting the public -- Who are we separately and together? -- Marginalization and reactionary politics -- What can we do to help? -- Hamilton -- What do I call you : First Nations, Indians, Aboriginals, Indigenous? -- Galloping toward Ottawa -- Jack Scott and the left -- Divisions, constraints and bindings -- Appropriation -- How does colonialism work? -- Response to empathy from settlers -- Reconciliation and residential school as an assimilation program
Summary "My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada 150" needs. On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, predjudice and reconcilliation (to name a few), are the heart of My Conversations with Canadians. In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Lee Maracle's My Conversations with Canadians presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 02, 2021)
Subject Stó:lō Indians -- History
Stó:lō Indians -- Social life and customs
Canadian essays
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Public opinion
Indigenous peoples in Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Public opinion
Canadian essays
Stó:lō Indians
Canada
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
History
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781771663595
1771663596
9781771663601
177166360X
9781771663618
1771663618
Other Titles Essays. Selections