Get To Know Inspiring Author Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith
Channel: all about canadian books
Date: 2023-06-27

Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith is the editor of Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop, which was published by Kegedonce Press and today we're going to get to know her.

Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith is a Saulteaux woman from Peguis First Nation. She is an editor, writer and journalist who graduated from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Aboriginal Studies in June 2011 and went on to receive her Master’s in Education in Social Justice in June 2017. 

Her first non-fiction story “Choosing the Path to Healing” appeared in the 2006 anthology Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces. She has written for the Native Canadian, Anishinabek News, Windspeaker, FNH Magazine, New Tribe Magazine, Muskrat Magazine and the Piker Press. She has also co-edited the anthology Bawaajigan with fellow Indigenous writer Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler. 

EVERY Canadian should read Silence to Strength. These powerful and very courageous writings from 17 sixties scoop survivors show "there is strength in telling story, and power in ending the silences of the past."

To purchase: 
https://www.kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/silence-to-strength-writings-and-reflections-on-the-sixties-scoop/

It was a honour speaking with Christine. HUGE miigwetch🙏Christine!

BIG 🙏for watching!

Watch Story Behind the Book Interview:
https://youtu.be/lAIi5BA9YZY

You can find Christine:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MiskoNoodinKwe
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You can find me at:
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