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January 21, 2000
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Volume 7, Number 9 |
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GENERAL |
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Native Studies prof. launches book on First Nations’ independence
A standing-room-only crowd of 70 jammed a room at the Diefenbaker Canada Centre Jan. 7 for the launch of Native Studies Assoc. Prof. Patricia Monture-Angus’ second book, entitled Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations Independence. Monture-Angus spoke to the audience of lawyers, academics, students, and others about her purpose in writing the book, in which she considers Supreme Court of Canada decisions and various concepts of independence. She says she intends the book to be controversial, and she concludes in it that the answer to First Nations’ struggle for independence lies in their own communities. "The strength exists in our communities to overcome the oppression we have survived for more than a century." Monture-Angus has been with the Native Studies Department since 1994, and published her first book, Thunder in My Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks, in 1995. She is Mohawk and married into the Cree community at Thunderchild First Nation, northwest of Saskatoon, where she is currently living while on sabbatical.
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