Becoming Kin | Empty Spaces
INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY TODAY "Unforgetting is the excavating of that truth and bringing it to the surface." Author Patty Krawec and her latest book Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. (Broadleaf Books, Haley Bateman) CBC BOOKS: Originally published on November 10, 2022. When faced with painful stories from the past, it can be easier and more convenient to turn away than to turn toward the whole truth. But author Patty Krawec says in order to heal and move forward, we'll first need to revisit and acknowledge what came before. Krawec's book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future, pulls on threads from the past and the present to stitch together a way forward. "We tend to think of now as this isolated time," Krawec, an Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer from Lac Seul First Nation, told Tapestry . "Following those threads back to 'how are all of...
