Carrying It Forward
Marilyn Stanley
, Sebastian Schulman
, Dawn Macdonald
, Erika Sager
, LJ Law
, Jude Castillo
, Sharon Bird
, Shayla Bradley
, Barry Kazimer
, Debbie Rodgers
, Nadia Cescato
, Natasa Ilic
, Linda Leitch
, Rose Hately
, Sarah Schwartz
, Joe Mitchell
, Hilary Squires
, Marjorie Roy
, Christopher Rossignol
, Dani Kat
, Sandra Perry
, Andrea Gillespie
, Mary Therrien
, Florence Tremblay-Béland
, Colleen Coco Collins
, Noelle Walsh
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Vanessa Seto
, Veena Lin
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sahhara Leckie
, Patricia Johnson
, Cathi McLean
, Chris Carvalho
, Janice B Knickle
, Melissa Kohlman
, Elaine Baptie
, Jen Bailey
, Hoda Montazeri
, Sandra Furlotte
, zelda dwyer
, Andrea Pole
, Melanie Solar
, Emma Sim
, Beth Follett
, Darlene Jilks
, Alex Henderson
, Randi Ann Doll
, Rachel Edmonds
, Carl Scott
, Joanne Epp
, Charles Leblanc
, Rodney Cross
, Benita Hartwell
, Megan Brodie
, Debbie Youngman
, Janet Meisner
, Kim Cappellina
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Robert Hykawy
, Deb Philippon
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Shannon Lee
, Linda Hall
, Margaret McKay
, Fin Macdonald
, Mary Lester
, Denise Duvall
, Marin Beck
, Linda Meyer
, Susan Jang
, Heather Belliveau
, Yolande Thivierge
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Maria Mclean
, Maureen Brownlee
, Melissa Poremba
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Ellen Clarke
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Nara Monteiro
, Natalie Mudri
, Janice Cournoyer
, Meradith Anderson
, Lisa Mallia
, Lynn Andrews
, Heather Chong
, Maggie Keating
, Riel Clarke
, jane luce
, Kate Rutter
, Ksrlene Kuhn
, Thelma Ball
, Gabrielle Wolfe
, Virginia Reddin
, Linda Dessau
, Teree Hokanson
, Jilanna Eagles
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Remi Gunn
, Diana Richardson
, ruth schaeffer
, Lorna Griffin
, Catherine Booker
, Janet Baron
, Megan Bishop
, Mariana Stefo
, Crystal Inwood
, Carson Loveless
, KERRILYNN SWEENEY
, Alice Meems
, Wanda Brine
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Laurie Burns
, Cindy Bodini
, Jen Smith
, Dana Francoeur
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Vicki Bedford
, Rhona Brinkman
, Paula Adam
, Jenna Lyn Albert
, Filomena Falocco
, Anne Range
, Sonia Adams
, Lynn Hallson
, Karen Nordrum
, Kathryn Galan
, Ken Gilmour
, Darlene Foster
, Heather O'Connor
, Katherine Koller
, Marilyn Sorensen
, Linda MacIntyre
, Karen Kendrick
, Laura Peters
, Siobhan Monaghan
, Colleen McArthur
, Astrid Egger
, Huguette Lemieux
, Walter Quan
, Margaret Jones
, Lynn Bechtel
, C. Ray
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Pamela Bruce
, Penelope Penner
, maria blanco
, Deanna Radford
, Joann Horgan
, finn mulryan
, Anndee Newson
, Olivia Pellegrino
, Jasmeet Gill
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John Brady McDonald has lived in Kistahpinanihk, an area that includes Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for nearly all his life. A member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation and a descendent of Metis leader Jim Brady, John Brady has worked to move carefully between these two nations—to learn their stories, honour their traditions and reclaim their languages, all of which were nearly lost to him. In this wide-ranging collection the author looks at everything from the city of Prince Albert to his experience of residential school, to northern firefighting, to his time in the United Kingdom, where he “discovered” and “claimed” the island for the First People of the Americas. These are essays filled with history, much careful observation and some hard-learned lessons about racism, about recovery, about the ongoing tragedies facing Indigenous peoples. With honesty, a poet’s turn of phrase and a bit of sly humour, John Brady pulls us deep into the life he has lived in Kistahpinanihk and asks us to consider what life could be like in a New North Territory.
