Idle No More, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, National Survey of Missing or Murdered Aboriginal Women … How can we co-exist if our common history is shame, injury, and anger? How can we counteract the misunderstandings of the other that lead to contempt? How can we make whites realize the invisible privilege that results from historical domination and the impact of cultural genocide on Indigenous peoples? In an attempt to open a dialogue, Kanape Fontaine and Béchard use personal stories to understand words and behaviors that are racist or that result from racism. In this epistolary exchange, Kanape Fontaine recounts her discovery of the residential schools, her obsession with the Oka Crisis, and life on the reserve in Pessamit, Quebec; Béchard talks about his father’s racism, the segregation of African-Americans, and his identity as a Quebecois living in the English-speaking world. By sharing honestly even their most painful memories, these two writers offer a humanist and universal book on the relationship to the other and the respect for difference.

Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Race and Reconciliation

History

Béchard, Deni Ellis

Fontaine, Natasha Kanapè

Americas

Talonbooks

Do not enter my soul in your shoes is a poetry collection of great sensitivity. Above all it is a cry from the heart, as if empathy and poetry were dazzled by the eruption of a volcano. Natasha Kanapé Fontaine reveals herself as a poet and Innu woman. She loves. She weeps. She shouts... to come into the world, again. The book is first of all a journey deep inside the self, with joy and love, taking the body on a path to expectation and ecstasy, a quest sustained by incisive, inventive writing, which can leap from impressions of nature to references to a Dali painting. The energy of the images and the power of this luminous, concise language amaze us.

Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.

Translated from French by Howard Scott.Assi Manifesto is a celebration of the Innu land in the tradition of Joséphine Bacon. This telluric power is reminiscent of Paul Chamberland?s Terre Québec. Natasha Kanapé?s challenge is to name her land, but also to reconcile opposites. In this collection of poetry, the author engages with the environment, colonialism, anxiety, anger, healing, solitude, and love. "Assi" in Innu means Land. Assi Manifesto is primarily a land of women. If the manifesto is a public space, Assi is a forum of life, a song for those who open their spirit to its mystery.

Assi Manifesto

In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language. On my left hip a face I walk I walk upright like a shadow a people on the hip a fruit boat and dream in women and children first ?A cry rises in me and transfigures me. The world waits for the woman to return as she was born: woman standing, woman power, woman resurgence. A call rises in me and I decided to say yes to my birth.?

Blueberries and Apricots

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Kuei, My Friend: A Conversation on Race and Reconciliation

Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes

Assi Manifesto

Blueberries and Apricots