In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Brittany Luby, an associate professor of history at the University of Guelph. Her new book Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory was published by the University of Manitoba Press in 2020. Dammed is a history of natural resource development in the lands of the Anishinaabe in northwestern Ontario. Dr. Luby is the many-greats granddaughter of an Anishinaabe chief who negotiated the North-West Angle Treaty of 1873. Dr. Luby is also a creative writer who has written children’s books, including a book about Jacques Cartier’s first expedition to North America in 1534 and his encounter with a Stadaconan fisher. Her second picture book, This Is How I Know, is a bilingual Anishinaabemowin-English exploration of the seasons inspired by her time on the land with Knowledge Keepers.
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