Decolonization and Me: Conversations about Healing a Nation and Ourselves To honour this national day, GRAN would like to draw attention to this new book by Phyllis Webstad, the founder of the Orange Shirt Day movement, Residential School Survivor, and award-winning Indigenous author, and co-author, Métis scholar, Kristy McLeod.
This book challenges readers through a series of sensitive conversations exploring decolonization, Indigenization, healing, and every person’s individual responsibility to truth and reconciliation. Centred around the Orange Shirt Day movement, and a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, these conversations encourage readers to unpack and reckon with denialism, biases, privilege, and the journey forward, on both a personal and a national level. Within each chapter, Phyllis Webstad offers insights on these topics, and stories from her personal journey, which co-author, Kristy McLeod, helps readers further navigate. Through empathy-driven truth-telling, this book offers an opportunity to witness, reflect, heal, and be intentional about the seeds we hope to plant for the future, together.
