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Learning Lodge Celebrating Andrea Curry and Finding Otipemisiwak
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Thursday January 30th, 2025
6:30p.m.
120 Dennis Hall
Coady West, St. Francis Xavier 
Free Event 
Everyone is welcome

Join author Andrea Currie, Dr. Jane McMillan, special guests and members of the Indigenous Students’ Society in conversation with the wisdom shared in Finding Otipemisiwak. 

Books available for purchase and signing $20.00.

ABOUT THE BOOK: A Sixties Scoop survivor’s journey back to her Nation and the truth of who she is

“Weaving myriad forms—poetry, family history, personal

essay, cultural criticism—Andrea Currie tells her story with mercy and force, revealing the warp and weft of the racist system that codified the robbery of Indigenous children through the Sixties Scoop and the devastating consequences for those children, their families, and their communities.…Finding Otipemisiwak is a necessary, searing, and luminous gift of a book.” —Rebecca Silver Slayter, author of The Second History

ANDREA CURRIE is a writer, healer, and activist born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and currently living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is a psychotherapist working in Indigenous mental health and has accompanied the We’koqma’q Residential School Survivors on their healing journey for the past twenty years.

Many thanks to the Ulnooweg Foundation & the Deveau Centre for Indigenous Governance and Social Justice and the Indigenous Students’ Society @ X.