My conversations with Canadians / Lee Maracle.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Meeting the public -- 2. Who are we separately and together? -- 3. Marginalization and reactionary politics -- 4. What can we do to help? -- 5. Hamilton -- 6. What do I call you: First Nations, Indians, Aboriginals, Indigenous? -- 7. Galloping toward Ottawa -- 8. Jack Scott and the left -- 9. Divisions, constraints and bindings -- 10. Appropriation -- 11. How does colonialism work? -- 12. Response to empathy from settlers.

"My Conversations With Canadians is the book that "Canada 150" needs. On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn't possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. As time has passed, she has been asked countless similar questions, all of them too big to answer, but not too large to contemplate. These questions, which touch upon subjects such as citizenship, segregation, labour, law, predjudice and reconcilliation (to name a few), are the heart of My Conversations with Canadians. In prose essays that are both conversational and direct, Maracle seeks not to provide any answers to these questions she has lived with for so long. Rather, she thinks through each one using a multitude of experiences she's had as a Canadian, a First Nations leader, a woman and mother and grandmother over the course of her life. Lee Maracle's My Conversations with Canadians presents a tour de force exploration into the writer's own history and a re-imagining of the future of our nation."-- Provided by publisher.