When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance by Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton

How many of us took “The Oka Crisis” at face value of media portrayal? Something along the line of lawless warriors in masks opposing the police in the summer of 1990? There were blockades and a militarized zone. Traffic inconveniences going into Montreal. You may recall that a golf course was set to dig up an Indigenous graveyard. 

The behind the scenes story is more complex, and long-standing, with not a lot of overlap with what was told in the media.

Class Lessons: Stories of Vulnerable Youth by Lucy E.M. Black

Class Lessons: Stories of Vulnerable Youth by Lucy E.M. Black is a stunning collection. Fictionalized to protect the identities of its characters, this is a gritty account of vulnerable youth in high school by a real-life career educator and author, Lucy Black. Black has brought her career’s worth of experience into Class Lessons. We meet …

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