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Becoming Kin
- An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
- Narrated by: Patty Krawec
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home."
Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps listeners see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history.
This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught.
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- hanbanshee
- 23-03-2023
Powerful and poignant lessons on solidarity
I listened through this beautiful book in just a few days, but it landed in a deep place for thinking-with practices of settler self-work and solidarity. Something I will return to often as a white colonial-settler in so-called australia working to practice solidarity, in the company of First Nations texts from this place. For the many white folks I've heard asking Indigenous thinkers and activists what they "should do", listening to/reading this generously offers you ways to take responsibility for your own learnings and choices. Highly recommended.
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