Me tomorrow : Indigenous views on the future / compiled and edited by Drew Hayden Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Canada.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Social life and customs.

Indigenous peoples--Canada--Social conditions.

Future, The.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples--Social life and customs.

Canada.

Physical Description:

211 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Madeira Park, BC : Douglas and McIntyre Ltd., [2021]

Summary:

"First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world. Discussing everything from language renewal to sci-fi, this collection is a powerful and important expression of imagination rooted in social critique, cultural experience, traditional knowledge, activism and the multifaceted experiences of Indigenous people on Turtle Island. In Me Tomorrow... Darrel J. McLeod, Cree author from Treaty-8 territory in Northern Alberta, blends the four elements of the Indigenous cosmovision with the four directions of the medicine wheel to create a prayer for the power, strength and resilience of Indigenous peoples. Autumn Peltier, Anishinaabe water-rights activist, tells the origin story of her present and future career in advocacy--and how the nine months she spent in her mother's womb formed her first water teaching. When the water breaks, like snow melting in the spring, new life comes. Lee Maracle, acclaimed Stó:lō Nation author and educator, reflects on cultural revival--imagining a future a century from now in which Indigenous people are more united than ever before. Other essayists include Cyndy and Makwa Baskin, Norma Dunning, Shalan Joudry, Shelley Knott-Fife, Tracie Léost, Stephanie Peltier, Romeo Saganash, Drew Hayden Taylor and Raymond Yakeleya. For readers who want to imagine the future, and to cultivate a better one, Me Tomorrow is a journey through the visions generously offered by a diverse group of Indigenous thinkers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Me Tomorrow-Paint It Red / Darrel J. Mcleod

Our Future Is Young, Educated And Relational / Dr. Cyndy Baskin

Future We In-U-Wee / Dr. Norma Dunning

No Reconciliation In The Absence Of Truth And Justice / Romeo Saganash

In The Blink Of An Eye / Autumn Peltier

A'Tukwewinu'K (Storytellers) / Shalan Joudry

Seventh-Generational Thinking-Fact Or Fiction? / Clarence Louie

Our Education Tomorrow / Shelley Knott Fife

Don't Give Up! / Raymond Yakeleya

Strangers In A Not So Strange Land / Drew Hayden Taylor

Me Tomorrow: The Journey Begins / Aka Amos Key Jr.

Waanishkow (Rising) / Tracie Leost

We Appear To Have Fallen On Dark Times / Lee Maracle.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781771622943

1771622946

OCLC:

1261879937

Publisher Number:

99991224338