RSVP to luncheon with Patty Krawec
Dear UO NAIS, Longhouse, and NASU communities,We are thrilled to invite you to a luncheon with Patty Krawec on Tuesday, February 4th at 12 p.m. in the Many Nations Longhouse. Please RSVP below.Patty is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to the Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory Canada, and the OHC’s Robert D. Clark lecturer for AY 2024-25.
She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa (we are all related) Foundation which challenges settlers to pay rent for living on Indigenous land and disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.
In her book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022) Krawec critiques the harmful impact of European Christian settler colonialism on Indigenous Americans. She details Indigenous American history from the first humans to populate the Americas through the present and outlines ways in which descendants of European colonizers and Indigenous people can become ‘good relatives’.