Silence to Strength: A Conversation with Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith October 26, 2023@ 6:30pm.

Silence to Strength: A Conversation with Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith

By TPL Programs

From the 1960’s through the 1980’s, many Indigenous children were taken from their communities and placed in non-Indigenous homes. The programs and policies that enabled child welfare authorities to do this is referred to as The Sixties Scoop. In this Live & Online program, author, editor, and journalist Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith discusses her work in shedding light on this period.

A Saulteaux woman from Peguis First Nation, Christine graduated from the University of Toronto with a specialization in Aboriginal Studies in 2011. Christine went on to receive her Master’s in Education in Social Justice in 2017. In 2021, she published a collection of personal essays, These are the Stories: Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor. In 2022, Christine edited Silence to Strength, a collection of essays by Sixties Scoop survivors.

Christine will be in conversation with Michelle Good, an author and lawyer of Cree ancestry. A member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation, Michelle has worked with Indigenous organizations since she was a teenager and advocated for Residential School Survivors while practicing law in the public and private sectors. Michelle’s award-winning debut novel, Five Little Indians, was published in 2020.

This program will be recorded and available for replay at this same link until December 26.

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