Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting The Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patti Krawec (Hardcover)

Nonfiction - History - Indigenous People of the Americas  Published: 9/27/22 Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec braids together historical and cultural analysis, Indigenous stories, and spirituality to create a vision of the world where we are all better relatives to one another.  We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become b