Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with OPL as we welcome Patty Krawec and explore the topic of \;The Decoloni zation Myth: Understanding the role of settler colonialism in how organiza tions function and the impacts on Indigenous people as a necessary first s tep to making the kind of change that matters. \;
\nPatty K rawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory\, living in Niagara Falls. She serves on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Center and sings with the Strong Water Singers\, a hand drum group. She is the cohost of the Medicin e for the Resistance podcast\, and co-founder of the Nii&rsquo\;kinaaganaa Foundation with journalist Nora Loreto and Blackfoot activist Terril Tail feathers\, challenging settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous lands. Patty worked for a sexual assault crisis center for four years\, a nd in child protection for sixteen years. She has a degree in social work. Her writing has been published in Sojourners\, Rampant Magazine\, Midnigh t Sun\, Yellowhead Institute\, Indiginews\, and elsewhere. Her book\, Beco ming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published by Broadleaf Books last fall.
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