Book set in Minaki, Canada. Reviewed on 2021/06: https://www.instagram.com/p/CQBtu1rLb-3/
I was reading #indianhorse by #richardwagamese when I learned about the macabre discovery of 215 children’s remains at a site of a former #indianresidentialschool in #kamloops #britishcolumbia . That made this compelling and gut-wrenching reading, even more so. #wagamese brings it home with this very human and personal #comingofage story. There is a lot of #rage , #fear and frustration in Indian Horse, all stemming from a place of deep generational #trauma . As it happens in the book, #stories can help with the #healing : the stories we tell ourselves and others, the ones we listen to, we share, etc. Even more importantly for those of us from the outside, how do we not re-traumatize people or impose our own traumas on other people’s stories? Before posting yet another “woke” post, I’m going to #highlyrecommend this visceral story in a quest to know more, to listen attentively and create space for healing and true #reconciliation . #indigenouspeoples #canlit #canadianliterature #milkweed #milkweededitions #minaki #ojibway #ontario
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