{"product_id":"unreconciled-family-truth-and-indigenous","title":"Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWINNER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSHORTLISTED \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003efor the 2023 Speaker's Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eUnreconciled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Thomas King, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Inconvenient Indian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSufferance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA prominent Indigenous voice uncovers the lies and myths that affect relations between white and Indigenous peoples and the power of narrative to emphasize truth over comfort.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir and part manifesto, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eUnreconciled\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stirring call to arms to put truth over the flawed concept of reconciliation, and to build a new, respectful relationship between the nation of Canada and Indigenous peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJesse Wente remembers the exact moment he realized that he was a certain kind of Indian--a stereotypical cartoon Indian. He was playing softball as a child when the opposing team began to war-whoop when he was at bat. It was just one of many incidents that formed Wente's understanding of what it means to be a modern Indigenous person in a society still overwhelmingly colonial in its attitudes and institutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the child of an American father and an Anishinaabe mother, Wente grew up in Toronto with frequent visits to the reserve where his maternal relations lived. By exploring his family's history, including his grandmother's experience in residential school, and citing his own frequent incidents of racial profiling by police who'd stop him on the streets, Wente unpacks the discrepancies between his personal identity and how non-Indigenous people view him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWente analyzes and gives voice to the differences between Hollywood portrayals of Indigenous peoples and lived culture. Through the lens of art, pop culture, and personal stories, and with disarming humour, he links his love of baseball and movies to such issues as cultural appropriation, Indigenous representation and identity, and Indigenous narrative sovereignty. Indeed, he argues that storytelling in all its forms is one of Indigenous peoples' best weapons in the fight to reclaim their rightful place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWente explores and exposes the lies that Canada tells itself, unravels \"the two founding nations\" myth, and insists that the notion of \"reconciliation\" is not a realistic path forward. Peace between First Nations and the state of Canada can't be recovered through reconciliation--because no such relationship ever existed.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42476451397721,"sku":"9780735235755","price":13.32,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9780735235755.jpg?v=1751464362","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/fr\/products\/unreconciled-family-truth-and-indigenous","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}