Patty Krawec

This is a very powerful book, and I greatly appreciated the way Krawec combined some of the darker history of the Americas with more inspiring stories and action items, instead of just focusing on the evil that was done. While we can't ignore the horrible things that happened, dwelling on them without breaks to look at what we can do now won't help us move forward. This is a very well thought-out book, and should be part of everyone's library so that we can start to heal this land together.

Side note: I loved hearing this as an audiobook. Having the Native stories told to me in this way felt more real and appropriate. I also appreciated hearing the Native words spoken. But I've also now ordered the hardback copy of the book, because the action items and resources are something I need to see in print in order to properly work with them.… (mehr)

A compassionate and accessible primer for beginning to do the work of decolonization. If you are a white settler on Turtle Island, this book is for you. Krawec guides us through learning — unforgetting — the real histories of this land and it’s people, and shares stories from her own life, her Anishinaabe people, and others. Each chapter ends with an action that settlers can take and the chapters build on each other so that by the end of the book a reader will have done quite a bit. For the reader for whom this book’s subject is not new, there is still plenty to learn, as Krawec guides a shift in settler colonial modes of thinking and names concepts that are sometimes hard to pin down. Thank you, Patty Krawec, for this book!… (mehr)