A review by stephkocheung
Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada by Michelle Good

challenging informative medium-paced

3.5

I don't usually love essays, but I found two of the essays in this book particularly compelling: $13.69, and Cultural Pillagers. The essays were a good balance of history and fact, as well as personal story and opinion.

In $13.69, Michelle Good address compensation,

illustrating the point with the $13.69/day that she was compensated for the trauma and abuse she endured through the Sixties Scoop.

In Cultural Pillagers, she addresses pretendians, who claim Indigenous identity when it serves their own purposes. I liked the analogy of

plants, where native plants represent Indigenous Peoples, naturalized plants represent people who are welcome and adopted into the community, and invasive plants are the frauds who eat up what belongs to Indigenous Peoples.