Canadian Consulate & Permanent Mission to the UN
466 Lexington Avenue
20th Floor
New York, NY 10017
United States
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To commemorate the International Year of Indigenous Languages and the US publication of his book, please join the Canadian Consulate & Permanent Mission to the UN for a reading, conversation and reception with Darrel J. McLeod, author of the Governor General’s Award-winning memoir, Mamaskatch.
6pm | Doors open
6:30pm | Event starts
Darrel J. McLeod
Darrel J. McLeod is the author of Peyakow and Mamaskatch, which received the Govenor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is Cree from treaty eight territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing in his retirement, McLeod was a chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the Assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French literature and education from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Sooke, British Columbia.
Thrillingly written in a series of fractured vignettes, and unflinchingly honest, Mamaskatch is a heartbreaking account of how traumas are passed down from one generation to the next.