Author Lee Maracle will be reading for several nights in Victoria (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cI\u2019m probably going to read from my new work, Celia\u2019s Song<\/i>. It\u2019s about this double-headed serpent and the struggle between the split mind,\u201d says Maracle. \u201cIt\u2019s a novel taking place in St\u00f3:l\u014d territory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Though known more for her fiction, Maracle has also written a number of non-fiction books, in which she discusses her vast knowledge of aboriginal history and issues. She says she will be reading from her new nonfiction book, Memory Serves<\/i>, published in 2015, as well as a book of poetry, Talking to the Diaspora<\/i>, also from 2015.<\/p>\n
\u201cMemory Serves<\/i> is really a series of speeches that I\u2019ve done over time,\u201d says Maracle. \u201cWe thought they made a good response to colonialism, and a good picture of St\u00f3:l\u014d philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maracle has spent plenty of time travelling the Salish territory, which covers all of Vancouver Island and spreads down into Montana and Washington. She has been described as a walking history book, a skill she currently applies as an instructor in the Indigenous Studies program at the University of Toronto. She is hoping to be able to teach the people who live in the territory a little more about Salish history.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like them to get an idea of who we are as Salish people, because they live in Salish territory and it would be good to have the original point of view,\u201d says Maracle. \u201cNormally, when you move to another country, you pick up the original language and culture that\u2019s there; that\u2019s not what happened in our case. Instead of the settler adapting to the new country, we had to adapt to the settler who took our country, and we\u2019re hoping to change that over time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee says that she is proud of the work that she has done and that she has been able to see change over time, which isn\u2019t always easy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe in everything I\u2019ve said, or done, or written,\u201d says Maracle. \u201cYou are a little stone in a quiet pond and your ripples go out no matter who you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
Open Word: Readings and Ideas with Lee Maracle
\n7:30 pm Tuesday, February 28
\nOpen Space
\n4 pm Wednesday, March 1
\nCamosun College, Room 234, Wilna Thomas Building
\n7:30 pm Wednesday, March 1
\nOpen Space
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