Reconciliation Book Club 5: A National Crime
7:30 PM on Tuesday Jun. 2nd, 2020
Online, your home
7:30 PM on Tuesday Jun. 2nd, 2020
Online, your home
These monthly-ish book clubs will be following the "Reconciliation Book Club" series spearheaded by Pam Palmater – Mi'kmaq lawyer and Ryerson University professor.
This time we'll be discussing The Story of a National Crime (1922) by Dr. Peter H. Bryce.
More booklet than book, this 18-pager can be read online for free at http://caid.ca/AppJusIndCan1922.pdf
For historical context, we recommend reading this CBC article on Bryce and his connection to Cindy Blackstock - or listen to an interview on the Unreserved podcast: https://bit.ly/36cStWp
You can watch the video of Pam Palmater talking about the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIhL-L3NmCY
This event is free, and will be taking place online on Jitsi (it’s like zoom but encrypted). Please message us to get the link!
The event will be in English but questions in French are welcome.
If you did not have time to read the book, we encourage you to still come and attend the discussion to learn more about the book, its content and the issues it covers (but try to read it please, it's only 18 pages :)).
Launched in July, the YouTube video series and its comments section are meant to be a safe space for Indigenous peoples and their allies to collaborate on what Palmater describes as an interactive journey to educate the resistance. How to be an ally is not taught in schools, she reminds viewers, so self-education is key. Each month she will recommend a book, and then in the following video she’ll discuss it using subscriber comments as feedback and contributions into the conversation.
Please note that the facilitators of this book club will be members of Indigenous Solidarity Ottawa (https://indigenoussolidarityottawa.wordpress.com/
) – folks who have been involved in Indigenous solidarity work and with a commitment to unsettling themselves and society, but are not Indigenous themselves.
Invite your friends and we hope to see you there!
PS: The NEXT book club event, most likely happening this summer, will be on Policing Indigenous Movements by Jeffrey Monaghan and Andrew Crosby. We are telling you now so that if you want to participate in that discussion, you order it now to have enough time to receive it and read it 🙂 https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-indigenous-movements
If you are in Ottawa, you can buy it at Octopus Books to support them if you'd like: https://octopusbooks.ca/
***This event is hosted on Algonquin territory. This land was stolen by settlers and settler governments in order to further the colonial project that is now called Canada. This land must be returned to the Algonquin Nation and we are committed to working in solidarity towards this decolonization.
This time we'll be discussing The Story of a National Crime (1922) by Dr. Peter H. Bryce.
More booklet than book, this 18-pager can be read online for free at http://caid.ca/AppJusIndCan1922.pdf
For historical context, we recommend reading this CBC article on Bryce and his connection to Cindy Blackstock - or listen to an interview on the Unreserved podcast: https://bit.ly/36cStWp
You can watch the video of Pam Palmater talking about the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIhL-L3NmCY
This event is free, and will be taking place online on Jitsi (it’s like zoom but encrypted). Please message us to get the link!
The event will be in English but questions in French are welcome.
If you did not have time to read the book, we encourage you to still come and attend the discussion to learn more about the book, its content and the issues it covers (but try to read it please, it's only 18 pages :)).
Launched in July, the YouTube video series and its comments section are meant to be a safe space for Indigenous peoples and their allies to collaborate on what Palmater describes as an interactive journey to educate the resistance. How to be an ally is not taught in schools, she reminds viewers, so self-education is key. Each month she will recommend a book, and then in the following video she’ll discuss it using subscriber comments as feedback and contributions into the conversation.
Please note that the facilitators of this book club will be members of Indigenous Solidarity Ottawa (https://indigenoussolidarityottawa.wordpress.com/
) – folks who have been involved in Indigenous solidarity work and with a commitment to unsettling themselves and society, but are not Indigenous themselves.
Invite your friends and we hope to see you there!
PS: The NEXT book club event, most likely happening this summer, will be on Policing Indigenous Movements by Jeffrey Monaghan and Andrew Crosby. We are telling you now so that if you want to participate in that discussion, you order it now to have enough time to receive it and read it 🙂 https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/policing-indigenous-movements
If you are in Ottawa, you can buy it at Octopus Books to support them if you'd like: https://octopusbooks.ca/
***This event is hosted on Algonquin territory. This land was stolen by settlers and settler governments in order to further the colonial project that is now called Canada. This land must be returned to the Algonquin Nation and we are committed to working in solidarity towards this decolonization.