Telling tales and learning traditional skills
This week we're hosting our first Indigenous Reads panel discussion and revealing the title of our second book. Plus a trip out on the land with high school students who are earning credit while learning traditional skills.
The first book in our #IndigenousReads book club is, The Break, by Métis author Katherena Vermette. This week we've invited three people from across the country to discuss the book. Gord Tanner is an actor from Winnipeg, Jeannine Covan is a nurse living in Amherst, Nova Scotia and award-winning author Eden Robinson, is from Kitimat, B.C.
We launch our second book in the book club. Beatrice Mosionier discusses the motivation behind writing In Search of April Raintree. The fourth edition of this book was recently released and Unreserved has chosen it as the next book in #IndigenousReads.
An outdoor class at Oscar Lathlin Collegiate on the Opaskwayak Cree Nation has students fish, trap and harvest food for school credit. A mix of academics and outdoor activities, land-based education is rooted in Indigenous knowledge. The CBC's Tim Fontaine visited the school and explains how the Cree culture is woven into all aspects of the educational approach.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - This Accident of Being Lost
Nick Sherman - Tears & Time