<html><head><style id="outgoing-font-settings">#response_container_BBPPID{font-family: initial; font-size:initial; color: initial;}</style></head><body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-image: initial; line-height: initial;"><div id="response_container_BBPPID" style="outline:none;" dir="auto" contenteditable="false"> <div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"> Allan, thank you for your insightful contribution.</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">See you Saturday</div><div name="BB10" id="BB10_response_div_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;">Tedd</div> <div name="BB10" id="response_div_spacer_BBPPID" dir="auto" style="width:100%;"> <br style="display:initial"></div> <div id="blackberry_signature_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"> <div id="_signaturePlaceholder_BBPPID" name="BB10" dir="auto"><p dir="ltr">Sent from my phone</p></div> </div></div><div id="_original_msg_header_BBPPID" dir="auto"> <table width="100%" style="border-spacing: 0px; display: table; outline: none;" contenteditable="false"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="padding: initial; font-size: initial; text-align: initial;"> <div style="border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top: 1pt solid rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, "BB Alpha Sans", "Slate Pro"; font-size: 10pt;"> <div id="from"><b>From:</b> bakers3@sympatico.ca</div><div id="sent"><b>Sent:</b> June 7, 2020 4:07 PM</div><div id="to"><b>To:</b> craic@lists.integralshift.ca</div><div id="reply_to"><b>Reply-to:</b> craic@lists.integralshift.ca</div><div id="subject"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Craic] references from our liturgy this week.</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <br> </div><!--start of _originalContent --><div name="BB10" dir="auto" style="background-image: initial; line-height: initial; outline: none;" contenteditable="false"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""></div>Hello Art;<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thomas King certainly is among the best storytellers I have heard recently. The Truth About Stories is a masterpiece, relaying the fact that all we are is “stories”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">His book that more directly deals with the story of “settlers”, and their/ our relationship with First Nations peoples is best told in a later book, called The Inconvenient Indian.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="product-image" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );float:left"><a class="verdana11R-U" style="color:rgb( 218 , 92 , 0 )"><img style="margin:0px;padding:0px 6px 6px 0px;border:0px;float:none" id="0A1B706D-D422-48B5-93CB-C50D579660C0" height="200" width="129" src="cid:F21F2631-6865-41E4-B6C1-91566CF870E5@home" class=""></a></div></div><div class="product-image" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );float:left"><a class="verdana11R-U" style="color:rgb( 218 , 92 , 0 )"><br class=""></a></div><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>HOWEVER, if one wishes to read an author who is more direct in their approach, I would suggest, “Unsettling Canada: A National Wake-up Call by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald M. Derrickson. For example:</div><div><i class="">“Canadian federal and provincial governments are telling their citizens and the world that everything is under control and that the only problem with Indigenous peoples is some sort of governance problem. They are trying to ignore our rights to self-determination and to economic control over our territories. But in the twenty-first century, the world is not in tune with Canada’s nineteenth-century colonialist approach.” (p. 159)</i></div><div><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div><i class="">“We need a more active strategy that includes public education, direct action / assertion of rights, and a strong international campaign.” (p.219)</i></div><div><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div>Maybe that strategy is what would benefit all racialized people(s), eh?</div><div><div class="product-image" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );float:left"><a class="verdana11R-U" style="color:rgb( 218 , 92 , 0 )"><img style="margin:0px;padding:0px 6px 6px 0px;border:0px;float:none" id="32D4FAF2-7015-4046-88B7-C3CDD6318D78" height="200" width="133" src="cid:6EE48ADC-B397-4ABF-B4C4-69D57A5D00C2@home" class=""></a></div><div class="product-image" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );float:left"><a class="verdana11R-U" style="color:rgb( 218 , 92 , 0 )"><br class=""></a></div><div class="product-image" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb( 51 , 51 , 51 );float:left"><a class="verdana11R-U" style="color:rgb( 218 , 92 , 0 )"><br class=""></a></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>May your week go well.</div><div>See you Saturday;</div><div>Allan</div><div><div class=""><font color="#4f7a28" class=""><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )" class="">U.K. writer </span><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:16px" class=""><a href="http://go.davidsuzuki.org/O07084DU00000V4C0e0NCLD" class="">Damian Barr tweeted</a></span><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )" class="">, “We are not all in the same boat. We are all in the same storm. Some are on super-yachts. Some have just the one oar.”</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#4f7a28" class=""><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#4f7a28" class=""><span style="font-family:'arial' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb( 255 , 255 , 255 )" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></div><!--end of _originalContent --></div></body></html>