FESTIVAL 2025

52 Ways to Reconcile How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

by David A. Robertson

Penguin Random House Canada

FESTIVAL 2025

52 Ways to Reconcile How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing

by David A. Robertson

Penguin Random House Canada

Synopsis

From bestselling author of the Misewa Saga series David A. Robertson, this is the essential guide for all Canadians to understand how small and attainable acts towards reconciliation can make an enormous difference in our collective efforts to build a reconciled country.

52 Ways to Reconcile is an accessible, friendly guide for non-Indigenous people eager to learn, or Indigenous people eager to do more in our collective effort towards reconciliation, as people, and as a country. As much as non-Indigenous people want to walk the path of reconciliation, they often aren’t quite sure what to do, and they’re afraid of making mistakes. This book is the answer and the long overdue guide.

The idea of this book is simple: 52 small acts of reconciliation to consider, one per week, for an entire year. They’re all doable, and they’re all meaningful. All 52 steps take readers in the right direction, towards a healthier relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and a time when we are past trauma. By following these steps, we can live in stronger and healthier communities equally, and respectfully, together.

About the Author

David A. Robertson is an award-winning author, editor, and speaker on Indigenous issues, mental health, and freedom of expression. His works include the novel The Theory of Crows, the memoirs Black Water and All the Little Monsters, picture books such as When We Were Alone and On the Trapline, and the middle-grade Misewa Saga. He has received the Governor General’s Literary Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and others, and hosted the acclaimed podcast Kiwew. In 2023, the University of Manitoba awarded him a Doctor of Letters. A member of Norway House Cree Nation, he lives in Winnipeg.

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Photo credit: Amber Green

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