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This Place: 150 Years Retold by Sonny Assu, Katherena Vermette, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Jen Storm, Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley, David A. Robertson, Brandon Mitchell, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Richard Van Camp, Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Chelsea Vowel

5 reviews

novella42's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Medical content, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and War

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Suicide, and Blood

ceruleanshelves's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

I have never liked the phrase, “History is written by the victors.” … 
…just because stories don’t get written down, it doesn’t mean they’re ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honor them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. 

Stunning, somber, informative, inspiring. 

Being from the US, I’m not v familiar w the indigenous history within what is now known as Canada. 

I was vaguely familiar with some things like the “sixties scoop” (when indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and put into homes elsewhere), this touches on that as well as many other historical events during the past 150 years on native lands of the northern end of Turtle Island. 

The art is beautiful and I really appreciated the specific timelines shown with each intro to comprehend what was happening before, during, & after around them. 

The world as we knew it ended the moment colonialism started to creep across these lands. But we have continued to tell our stories; we have continued to adapt. Despite everything, we have survived.

#LANDBACK

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racism, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Racial slurs and Sexual assault

Minor: Body horror, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Grief, Cannibalism, and Death of parent

valeria_balzan's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

As it's common with anthologies of short stories, some are better than others, but overall all take on different moments in history where Indigenous people and communities were wronged.
The art style of all the stories is simply amazing and it shows that there has been a lot of love and effort put into this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Minor: Animal death

Different trigger warnings for different stories, but this is overall.

battybookworm's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

This was mainly an informative text about Indigenous history in Canada. It's beautifully illustrated and each other tells a compelling part of their history. Some specific ones that stood out to me were Rosie and the fight and speech against The Mackenzie Pipeline. Much of the book feels like a jumping off point, and I now have a list of other pieces to check out or historical events/figures to look into. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Police brutality, Religious bigotry, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Police brutality, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, and Pregnancy

maryjames's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Cultural appropriation, and Colonisation

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, Misogyny, Sexism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol