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Meeting My Treaty Kin: A Journey Toward Reconciliation

Meeting My Treaty Kin: A Journey Toward Reconciliation

Menzies, Heather

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ISBN10: 0774890665
ISBN13: 9780774890663
Publisher: On Point Press
Published: Nov 19 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.43
Language: English
How one woman came to understand her relationship with colonization through conversations with Indigenous people.

Can Indigenous and non-Indigenous people live in a treaty relationship despite over two hundred years of social, cultural, and political alienation? This is the challenge of reconciliation as well as its beautiful promise. Twenty-five years after the Ipperwash crisis, writer and social activist Heather Menzies showed up in Nishnaabe territory in Southwestern Ontario, near where her forebears settled, hoping to meet her would-be treaty kin. She was invited to help document the broken-treaty story behind the crisis, as remembered by Nishnaabe Elders and other community members involved in reclaiming their homeland at Stoney Point. But she soon realized that even the most sincere intentions can be steeped in a colonial mindset that hinders understanding, reconciliation, and healing. In Meeting My Treaty Kin, Menzies shares her journey. Her thoughtful, sensitive, nuanced account shows how a settler, through respectful listening, can learn what being in a treaty relationship might mean, and what changes--personal and institutional--are needed to embrace genuine reconciliation.

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