My conversations with Canadians / Lee Maracle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maracle, Lee, author.

Series:

Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 4.

Essais ; no. 4

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stó:lō Indians--History.

Stó:lō Indians.

Stó:lō Indians--Social life and customs.

Indians of North America--Canada--Government relations.

Indians of North America.

Off-reservation boarding schools.

Manners and customs.

History.

Canada.

Indians of North America--Canada--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Off-reservation boarding schools--Canada.

Maracle, Lee.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : BookThug, 2017.

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.

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.

Other Format:

Maracle, Lee, 1950- Essays. Selections My conversations with Canadians./

ISBN:

9781771663588

1771663588

OCLC:

1011568982

Publisher Number:

99978865298