TRC57 Speaker Series

an Indigenous learning series

Heather Menzies

Topic:Meeting My Treaty Kin: A Journey Toward Reconciliation

with Heather Menzies
Webinar Date: January 24, 2024 / 12-1pm PT
Join us in conversation with Heather Menzies, a settler Canadian who shares a personal, intimate story of her journey and steps toward reconciliation, revealing the rich potential that comes from learning to listen and change – decolonization - not as to-do list, but as a lived experience of taking one awkward step at a time. The conversation will weave lived experiences and stories to illuminate a path settlers could take to better understand and engage in treaty relationships from the personal to the institutional changes required to champion authentic reconciliation.
Meeting My Treaty Kin: A Journey Toward Reconciliation
Heather Menzies
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Book Club Questions

Why is it so hard to go beyond gestures like land acknowledgements and buying orange t.shirts?

How can we be supportive without risking ‘cultural appropriation’ criticisms?

Why is it important that ordinary Canadians (non-Indigenous ones) take up the challenge of reconciliation and engage in what it requires?

About Heather Menzies

Heather Menzies is an award-winning author, activist, and adjunct research professor in the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University. In 2013, she was appointed to the Order of Canada for her contributions to public discourse. Most recently, she collaborated with the Nishnaabeg at Stoney Point to produce Our Long Struggle for Home: The Ipperwash Story. She has won two book awards and one magazine award, and two of her books appeared on the Globe and Mail’s top 100 books of the year list. Heather, who lives on the unceded Snuneymuxw territory in British Columbia is a seeker, trying to name what's behind people's sense of disconnection, and what's required for reconnection, reconciliation and healing.