Thomas King

  • Why didn’t we kill you off

    Excerpt from The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. If North America doesn’t like Live Indians and it doesn’t like Legal Indians, why doesn’t the military-political-corporate complex just kill us off? I know this question sounds melodramatic and absurd, but I’ve been to…

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  • Gateway drug

    This is a quote from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below! If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here. The Inconvenient Indian – Summary The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the…

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  • Five modern classics by Canadian authors

    It’s July! When I think of July, I think of two things, Canada Day (because I’m Canadian) and Disability Pride Month. For this month, I’ll be sharing a book lists both about Canada and about Disability Justice. Canada has a decent history of supporting local artists. As far back as the 1930’s, the regulators placed…

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  • Five nonfiction books about Canada

    It’s July! When I think of July, I think of two things, Canada Day (because I’m Canadian) and Disability Pride Month. For this month, I’ll be sharing a book lists both about Canada and about Disability Justice. July 1st is Canada Day. It celebrates the passing of the British North America Act, which unified the…

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  • History is the stories we tell

    This is a quote from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Have you read this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts in a comment below! If you’re interested, you can read an excerpt from the book here. The Inconvenient Indian – Summary The Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the…

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  • Forget Columbus

    Excerpt from The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Most of us think that history is the past. It’s not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That’s all it is. Stories. Such a definition might make the enterprise of history…

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  • Extermination and assimilation

    Excerpt from The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King. Throughout the history of Indian-White relations in North America, there have always been two impulses afoot. Extermination and assimilation. Extermination of Native peoples, especially in the early years, was not considered “genocide”—a term coined…

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  • First Woman’s garden

    Excerpt from Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King This is an excerpt from the book Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King. First Woman’s garden. That good woman makes a garden and she lives there with Ahdamn. I don’t know where he comes from. Things like that happen, you know. So there is that…

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  • Uncle Leroy’s big idea (part 2)

    This is an excerpt from the book Indians on Vacation by Thomas King. If you missed it, you can read part one of this passage here. When Bernie tells the story of Uncle Leroy, she closes her eyes so she can see the story, whole and complete. “I told you it wasn’t much of a…

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  • Uncle Leroy’s big idea (part 1)

    This is an excerpt from the book Indians on Vacation by Thomas King. At some point in the story of Uncle Leroy and the Crow bundle, Bernie would touch on the drinking. “Leroy was no drunk,” she would say, “but he did drink. And Mr. Nelson or Wilson was one of those born-againers. Man thought…

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