I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review.
“Like many stories of origin, the story of peace-making takes place in the teeth of its opposite. Civil life must be carefully built against the dark threat of distrust and violence. Part of the story told in this book is that the ideal of friendship and alliance pictured in the image of linked arms, and its betrayal, is so deeply embedded in Canadians’ collective unconscious that it remains our country’s constitutional – or even better, our constitutive – relationship,” (Coleman 15).
In April 2006, Daniel Coleman went into his office at McMaster University and learned that the campus was providing lodging for police officers who had raised the site of an Indigenous land dispute near Caledonia, Ontario. From here, Coleman’s thought differently about Indigenous issues, which he’d already long supported, and began working closely with Indigenous scholars to understanding the Wampum covenants and seeing if there is a way to repair the relationship with Indigenous peoples and communities and the land itself. Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 