In recognition o f National Indigenous History Month\, please join us for an evening with D r. Lianne Leddy\, associate professor of history at Wilfrid Laurier Univer sity\, and winner of the 2023 Governor General award for Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake.
\nThis program is presented in partnership with the City o f Waterloo Museum. \;
\nLia nne C. Leddy (Anishinaabekwe) is a member of Serpent River First Nation an d grew up in Elliot Lake\, Ontario. She is an associate professor of Histo ry and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Histories and Historical Practice in Canada at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her award-winning book\ , Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake was published by University of Toronto Press in 2022. Leddy's work has appeare d in the Canadian Historical Review\, \;Oral History Forum\, NAIS\, an d Herizons \;as well as several edited collections.
\nSerpent River Resurgence \ ;tells the story of how the Serpent River Anishinaabek confronted the persistent forces of settler colonialism and the effects of uranium minin g at Elliot Lake\, Ontario. Drawing on extensive archival sources\, oral h istories\, and newspaper articles\, Lianne C. Leddy examines the environme ntal and political power relationships that affected her homeland in the C old War period.
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