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Event Overview:

Andrea will weave together personal reflections and teachings from her work of narrative non-fiction, Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, with information about the Sixties Scoop and its place in the ongoing colonial assaults on Indigenous peoples on Turtle Island from contact with the Europeans to the present, then move to reflections on the healing process from both a personal and professional perspective.


About Andrea…
Andrea Currie, Green Turtle Woman, is Red River Métis from the historic Métis homeland in southern Manitoba and currently lives in Unama'ki (Cape Breton). She is a psychotherapist, writer, and musician who has been working for the past 21 years in the Mi'kmaq community. Andrea's debut book, Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves, is a weaving of memoir, essay and poetry, illustrating the depth and breadth of the impact of the Sixties Scoop, the love between a brother and a sister, the challenges of living with profound cultural loss, and the healing that is sometimes possible. This timely work of narrative non-fiction includes pieces ranging from critiques of child-welfare colonial practices to tender accounts of two children’s vulnerability in childhoods defined by that system.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Date: March 17, 2026

Time: 3:00 - 4:30 PM ET

This event will be recorded

This event has been approved for 1.5 credits

 

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ICC Event - The Indigenous Circle of the CCPA Virtual Speaker Series hosts: Andrea Currie, Green Turtle Woman

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