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OverviewCan Indigenous and non-Indigenous people live in a treaty relationship despite over 200 years of social, cultural, and political alienation? This is the challenge of reconciliation – and 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 this thoughtful, sensitive, nuanced account, Heather Menzies shares her own decolonizing journey. Her story 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Heather MenziesPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9780774890663ISBN 10: 0774890665 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1 At the Fence 2 Showing Up 3 First Doubts 4 A Chance to Really Engage 5 Who Do You Think You Are? 6 Showing Up Again 7 Dwelling in Discomfort 8 Challenged 9 Challenging Myself 10 Conversations Deepen 11 Witnessing Denial 12 Learning to Listen 13 Witnessing Denial – and Possibility 14 Surrendering Personally 15 Living a Land Claim 16 Connective Cadences 17 Colonialism Ongoing 18 Preparing to Leave 19 The Poignant Blessings of Relationship Building 20 Surrendering Professionally 21 Helping Prepare a Spirit Plate 22 Continuing the Journey: Toward a Possible Settler Counter-Narrative Epilogue: Lighting the Eighth Fire?Reviews"""Heather Menzies courageously and humbly chronicles her personal journey of disrupting the colonial legacy through unlearning and deep listening to her treaty kin. Her story offers wisdom for going beyond words of apology to rebuild respectful relations with First Peoples. There is hard work in this journey, but there is also hope.""-- ""The Reverend Dr. James V. Scott, O.C., former United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools"" ""Heather Menzies's account of having to confront and unlearn the taken-for-granted knowledge, assumptions, and unequal power dynamics of her own white settler privilege is told with candour, critical self-reflection, and a willingness to change.""-- ""Paulette Regan, author of Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada"" ""Through stories of her own personal journey of decolonization as a settler Canadian, Heather Menzies's brave and honest memoir illuminates promising possibilities for all of us to revitalize our foundational treaty relationships.""-- ""Lindsay Keegitah Borrows, author of Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law""" """A thoughtful, sensitive, nuanced account of the personal groundwork that reconciliation requires, and the promise that listening with respect holds for healing our relations with one another.""-- ""The Tyee"" ""Heather Menzies courageously and humbly chronicles her personal journey of disrupting the colonial legacy through unlearning and deep listening to her treaty kin. Her story offers wisdom for going beyond words of apology to rebuild respectful relations with First Peoples. There is hard work in this journey, but there is also hope.""-- ""The Reverend Dr. James V. Scott, O.C., former United Church General Council Officer for Residential Schools"" ""Heather Menzies's account of having to confront and unlearn the taken-for-granted knowledge, assumptions, and unequal power dynamics of her own white settler privilege is told with candour, critical self-reflection, and a willingness to change.""-- ""Paulette Regan, author of Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada"" ""Through stories of her own personal journey of decolonization as a settler Canadian, Heather Menzies's brave and honest memoir illuminates promising possibilities for all of us to revitalize our foundational treaty relationships.""-- ""Lindsay Keegitah Borrows, author of Otter's Journey Through Indigenous Language and Law""" Author InformationHeather Menzies is an award-winning author, activist, and adjunct research professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University. In 2013, she was appointed to the Order of Canada for her contributions to public discourse. Most recently, she collaborated with the Nishnaabeg at Stoney Point to produce Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash Story. She is also the author of ten books, including Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, No Time: Stress and the Crisis of Modern Life, and the memoir Enter Mourning: Death, Dementia and Coming Home. She has won two book awards and one magazine award, and two of her books appeared on the Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of the year list. She lives on unceded Snuneymuxw territory in British Columbia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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