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The Rockland Public Library presents Shirley Hager and T. Dana Mitchell, Thursday October 21 at 6:30 p.m., by calling via Zoom. This event is free and open to everyone.
Gatherings: reinventing the relationship between natives and settlers (University of Toronto Press, 2021), written by a group of Wabanaki and non-Indigenous co-authors, tells the story of a series of cross-cultural encounters. From 1987 to 1993, a series of weekend meetings between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people took place throughout the Gulf of Maine bioregion, in Wabanaki territory. They sought to explore some of the most pressing issues at the heart of Truth and Healing efforts in the United States and Canada.
In this book, Hager and his co-authors share the lessons they have learned and continue to learn through their ongoing relationships. Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create meaningful and lasting relationships. At this event, two of the co-authors – Shirley Hagar and T. Dana Mitchell – will discuss their experiences at these meetings and share stories about the making of the book.
Shirley N. Hager is a retired Associate Professor at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Currently, she sits on the Friends (Quakers) Committee on Maine Public Policy and chairs its Committee on Tribal-State Relations.
T. Dana Mitchell is a Panawahpskek / Penobscot from the Bear Clan. Its inhabitants are named after the river they live on, the Penobscot, which runs through central and eastern Maine. As Mitchell describes it, the river is their highway, their lifeline and their blood. Mitchell grew up in Panawahpskek with thirteen siblings, descendants of a long line of tribal chiefs.
For a link to the Zoom event, please email [email protected] by 4:00 p.m. on October 21 and indicate the event you would like to attend in the subject line.
