A review by emjay2021
The Truth about Stories by Thomas King

5.0

I assigned this for my First Peoples Literature course--we read and discussed one chapter every couple of weeks, and my students absolutely loved it. Some read the paper version; some listened to the audio version of King's Massey Lectures broadcast on CBC Radio. You can find them all on the CBC website, and even if you choose to read the book rather than listen to it, I do recommend listening to at least one of the lectures. King is a fantastic storyteller with a great voice and a great style. He speaks with both humour and deadly seriousness about the contemporary issues facing indigenous people in Canada, the US, and all over the world as a result of colonization. It's an important book/series of lectures, and I would recommend it to anyone who is concerned about the state of the earth and where we are headed. Even though Thomas King gave these lectures in 2003, I think you and I both know that the outlook for the environment, for democracy, and for social justice has not exactly improved in the intervening 16 years.