Discover U.S. history through our curated selection of texts and discuss how our nation's history and our understandings of the past inform the present.
This week's text is Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec. Please register online here by April 9.
From the publisher: "Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer... This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught."
Schedule:
Ages 16 and up.
Fee: $8 (resident) / $10 (non-resident). Drop-ins are welcome as space permits once minimum enrollment is met.
Call the museum at (847) 929-8001 or email eengland@skokieparks.org with questions.
Next month's texts will be The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein and America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell.