Submitted by Rachel Rose on behalf of Social Committee
The Social Justice Film and Book club would like to invite you to participate in our first exploration into the experiences and perspectives of Indigenous peoples. No need to formally opt in or out, just a willingness to learn.
Please choose to explore as many (or as few) of the following sources to deepen your own learning about the experiences and perspective of Indigenous peoples. This is a bit of a different book club in that you can choose the content most interesting to you and most relevant to your learning!
We will meet as a group late-October to chat and connect about our questions, learnings and insights. We will then invite a guest speaker late-November as a culminating exercise in our learning. At the end of this we intend to have a conversation about what action and steps we need to take as a co-op to bring our insights to meaningful action.
A few copies of the Fiction and Nonfiction books will be purchased. Please email Rachel at rachelroseconsulting@gmail.com if you would like to access one!
1. Nonfiction
· Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga
2. Fiction
· Medicine River by Thomas King
3. Film (Documentary)
· Trick or Treaty by Alanis Obomsawin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAGHDrSRd4k
Or available through the NFB
4. Film (Fiction)
· The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Streaming on CBC Gem
5. Essay #1
· Jagged Worldviews Collide by Leroy Little Bear
https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aswt/worldviews/documents/jagged_worldviews_colliding.pdf
6. Essay #2
· All Our Relations Askîy maskihkiwiwiskwew by Tiffany Freeman
Available in the Sunnyside School Centennial Yearbook or as the attached image here.