Summer Reading Suggestions

Indigenous-Settler relations in Southwestern Ontario:

  • Meeting My Treaty Kin: A Journey toward Reconciliationby Heather Menzies


Jewish-Palestinian relations: 

  • The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don't Want to Know about Each Other by Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson


Southern Ontario. Quebec and Labrador as seen from a canoe: 

  • Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odysseyfrom My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts. If you get the audiobook, you get to hear him read it. If you get the hard copy book, you get the maps. 


How our culture causes illness and paths to healing: 

  • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Cultureby Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté. This could be a challenging read for some. 


Women’s history:

  • The Dinner Party: Restoring Women to History by Judy Chicago. Although this bookwas published in 1979, I’ve only just read it and learned SO much. 


Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (subtitle):

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer


Spirit:

  • Richard Wagamese Selected: What Comes from Spirit by Richard Wagamese


Racism in CSIS:

  • Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism by Huda Mukbil. This is an autobiography.


Indigenous Spirituality: 

  • God Is Red: A Native View of Religion by Vine Deloria Jr. This book just celebrated its 50thanniversary of publication. Harvard Divinity School ran a lecture series on it in the fall, which you can find on YouTube.