A conversation with author Suzanne Methot and host Miranda Jimmy.

Five hundred years of colonization have taken an incalculable toll on the Indigenous peoples of the Americas: substance use disorders and shockingly high rates of depression, diabetes, and other chronic health conditions brought on by genocide and colonial control. With passionate logic and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses history, human development, and her own and others’ stories to trace the roots of Indigenous cultural dislocation and community breakdown in an original and provocative examination of the long-term effects of colonization. But all is not lost. Methot also shows how we can come back from this with Indigenous ways of knowing lighting the way.

Note: This event has been adjusted from that originally scheduled. Author Jessica McDiarmid has had to cancel her appearance. If you have questions or would like to refund/transfer your tickets, please let us know at rsvp@litfestalberta.org.

$12 in advance, $15 at the door subject to availability.