About the book:
\nTreaties cover muc h of Canada. Some were established thousands of years ago\, with Land and animals\, and others date back to the time when Europeans first arrived in North America. These agreements make it possible for all of us to live\, work\, play\, and profit on these Lands. Additionally\, treaties have prof oundly shaped the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peopl e. In Talk Treaty to Me\, Crystal Gail Fraser and Sara Komarnisky untangle the complexities of treaties and set forth a path to a greater understand ing of all our roles\, rights\, and responsibilities.
\nWith a quick -reference timeline\, maps\, and black-and-white photographs throughout\, Talk Treaty to Me concludes with a call to action and specific\, tangible steps that all of us can take every day to support truth and reconciliatio n.
\nDr. Crystal Gail Fraser is Gwichyà\; Gwich&rsquo\;in\, or iginally from Inuvik and Dachan Choo Gè\;hnjik (Tree River) in the N orthwest Territories. She is the granddaughter of Marka and Richard Bulloc k (maternal) and Gwen and Robert Fraser (paternal)\, and the daughter of J uliet Bullock and Bruce Fraser. Dr. Fraser is a historian and Associate Pr ofessor in the Department of History\, Classics\, &\; Religion and the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. Her research\, tea ching\, and community work focus on histories of residential and day schoo ling in the North\, Indigenous childhoods\, and relationships between colo nialism\, education\, genocide\, and human rights in the 20th and 21st cen turies.
\nSara Komarnisky is an author\, researcher\, and public sch olar who has published and presented on topics ranging from the lifeways o f multigenerational families of Mexicans in Alaska\, to art and craft made by Indigenous patients at tuberculosis hospitals\, to community-driven he alth and wellbeing policy and programming\, to 150 Acts of Reconciliation\ , and more recently\, to an emerging art/research creation project explori ng Northern practices of (social) repair. She has experience leading compl ex projects through from start to finish\, with a focus on building and ma intaining strong relationships while allowing for creativity\, fun\, and i nnovation throughout. \;Sara is of Ukrainian settler ancestry and grew up in Holden\, Alberta. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Universi ty of British Columbia where she was a Vanier Scholar. She is excited abou t the potential of the future art centre because she thinks it can be a mu ch needed intellectual and creative space in the NWT. She has lived in So ̨ǫ̀mbak'è (Yellowknife) since 2018 with her husband and tw o children. Sara loves to garden\, fish\, ski\, and paddle on local lands and waters.
\nNovel Idea will be onsite selling copies of Talk Treat y to Me: Understanding the Basics of Treaties and Land in Canada.
\nLight refreshments will be provided.
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