Hi-Story! Celebrating Indigenous Voices

May 22, 2024

Location: Okanagan Regional Library
Address: 1380 Ellis St.
Time: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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2024-05-22 11:00:00 2024-05-22 13:00:00 America/Vancouver Hi-Story! Celebrating Indigenous Voices To record history is to spin a story, often with unreliable narrators and plot holes. Indigenous history is often presented through a settler perspective, with no Indigenous voices involved. This event introduces the practice of recording Indigenous history through both traditional Syilx/Indigenous oral storytelling practices and contemporary Syilx/Indigenous literature. This Indigenous History Month, listen to authors Nicola Campbell (Nłeʔkepmx, Syilx and Métis) and Levi Bent/qʷyqʷaʕyáx̌n,(Syilx) speak to the importance of their Indigenous stories—both past and present. Light refreshments will be served. Okanagan Regional Library 1380 Ellis St. events@kelownanow.com
To record history is to spin a story, often with unreliable narrators and plot holes. Indigenous history is often presented through a settler perspective, with no Indigenous voices involved. This event introduces the practice of recording Indigenous history through both traditional Syilx/Indigenous oral storytelling practices and contemporary Syilx/Indigenous literature. This Indigenous History Month, listen to authors Nicola Campbell (Nłeʔkepmx, Syilx and Métis) and Levi Bent/qʷyqʷaʕyáx̌n,(Syilx) speak to the importance of their Indigenous stories—both past and present. Light refreshments will be served.