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Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Date: 15 September, 2021

Cost: Free

Event Category: Book Launch , Community Events

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/2738422276448782/?ref=newsfeed

Location: Online – Please RSVP

Organizer: Baraka Books

Join Romeo Saganash for a reading from Waswanipi followed by a question-and-answer session.

It’s 1963, Jean-Yves Soucy is 18 and dreams of being a fire warden scanning the boreal forest from a fire tower. But he ends up at an equipment depot between Val-d’Or and Chibougamau. To his delight, he is located near the Cree community of Waswanipi. With two Cree guides, including a man named William Saganash, he will be canoeing through the lakes and rivers of the region.

On each encounter with the Crees, Jean-Yves expects to see a new world. Instead, he meets a different civilization, as different from his own as Chinese civilization. Yet he knows nothing about it.

He wrote Waswanipi because Romeo Saganash, son of William, insisted: “You have to write that, Jean-Yves. About your relationship with my father and the others, how you saw the village. You got to see the end of an era.”

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