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Dive into a conversation with Tracey Lindberg and katherena vermette as they discuss they discuss their respective works. katherena vermette’s procession is a gripping collection of poems use 80s childhood imagery and different generational voices to question the reason for existence. She challenges what it means to be a descendant and future ancestor simultaneously. Bestselling author of Birdie, Tracey Lindberg’s book The Cree Word for Love dives deeper into the meaning of love as a having a rhetorical difference in Western society. Ultimately, there is no word for “Love” in cree and through prose and collaborative illustrations by George Littlechild, Lindberg challenges readers to consider love as an obligatory feeling that must be extended to human relations. Would we need the word if its expression went without saying? Both authors work to address the idea of personal responsibility to each other and those that come after us and what it means to maintain this ideology in everyday life.

Moderated by Victoria Hetherington 

The Cree Word for Love

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Tracey Lindberg

Tracey Lindberg is a citizen of As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation Rocky Mountain Cree and hails from the Kelly Lake Cree Nation community. She is an award-winning academic writer and a professor of law.

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katherena vermette

katherena vermette (she/her/hers) is a Michif (Red River Métis) writer from Treaty 1 territory, the heart of the Métis Nation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. In 2013, her first book, North End Love Songs (Muses’ Company) won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry.

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