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Time: 2:00 pm–3:00 pm

Date: December 7, 2024

Cost: Free

Event Category: Read Quebec Book Fair

Location: Casa d’Italia—505 Rue Jean-Talon Est, Montreal, QuebecVenue Website

Organizer: AELAQ, View Organizer Website

December 7, 2024
2 pm–3 pm ET

Join Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, longtime activist and visual artist, to hear about her new book, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance. A memoir of a deeply engaged life, with an account of the siege at Oka, where she was a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) spokesperson. In conversation with Samir Shaheen-Hussain, MD, author of Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada, winner of the 2021 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, the 2021 Concordia University First Book Prize, and le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole 2022.

 

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