Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe and Ukrainian writer and speaker from Lac Seul First Nation. She serves on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Center and is active with the Strong Water Singers. She is the cohost of the popular Medicine for the Resistance podcast and host of the online book club Ambe: A Year of Indigenous Reading. Her work has been published in Sojourners and Canadian Living. Krawec is a member of Chippawa Presbyterian Church and lives in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

In the show today, Jo and Patty explore what it means to become kin. They talk about returning to ancestral lands and what that actually means. The American story is all about displacement, so what does it mean to all coexist together? Listen to this episode for exploration on that and so much more with Patty.

 

In This Episode

• 4:58 - How to be good kin to each other
• 7:13 - Three different perspectives on kinship
• 15:10 - Unforgetting history
• 28:17 - The first step towards becoming kin
• 35:38 - Books vs the lived experience
• 45:45 - Retaining connection to ancestral lands

 

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