Surviving Canada, edited by Myra Tait and Kiera Ladner
CBC Books | Posted: July 12, 2017 5:12 PM | Last Updated: June 5, 2023
A collection of reflections on Canada's complicated relationship with its Indigenous population
Surviving Canada: Indigenous Peoples Celebrate 150 Years of Betrayal is a collection of elegant, thoughtful and powerful reflections about Indigenous peoples' complicated and often frustrating relationship with Canada, and how — even 150 years after Confederation — the fight for recognition of their treaty and Aboriginal rights continues.
Kiera L. Ladner is an associate professor at the University of Manitoba. She also is the co-editor of This is an Honour Song: Twenty Years Since the Blockades alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
Myra Tait is a law student and a member of Berens River First Nation in Manitoba.