{"id":24043,"date":"2019-06-20T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=24043"},"modified":"2019-06-20T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T22:37:21","slug":"one-eread-canada-shines-light-on-indigenous-voices-with-glass-beads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/one-eread-canada-shines-light-on-indigenous-voices-with-glass-beads\/","title":{"rendered":"One eRead Canada shines light on Indigenous voices with Glass Beads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pick up your tablet\nor e-reader and borrow a free copy of Dawn Dumont\u2019s \u201cGlass Beads\u201d to join in a\nnation-wide conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through June 30,\nunlimited digital copies of Glass Beads, a novel of three interconnected short\nstories, are available to borrow for free with your Aurora Public Library\nmembership. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by the\nCanadian Urban Libraries Council, One eRead Canada is supported by libraries\nacross the country and has been designed to create an opportunity for people\nacross the country to read one book together and share their thoughts, feelings\nand experiences with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glass Beads charts\nthe friendship of four First Nations people \u2013 Everett Kaiswatim, Nellie Gordon,\nJulie Papequash and Nathan (Taz) Mosquito over two decades, and how historical,\npolitical and cultural shifts impact them, and members of First Nations\nCommunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese young people\nare among the first of their families to live off the reserve for most of their\nadult lives, and must adapt and evolve,\u201d reads the synopsis. \u201cIn stories like\nStranger Danger, we watch how shy Julie, though supported by her roomies, is\nfilled with apprehension as she goes on her first white-guy date, while years\nlater in Two years Less A Day, we witness her change as her worries and\nvulnerability are put to the real test when she is unjustly convicted in a\nviolent melee and must serve some jail time. The House and Things That Can Be\nTaken establishes how the move from the city both excites and intimidates\nreserve youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the four friends\nexperience family catastrophes, broken friendships, travel to Mexico, and the\naftermath of the great tragedy of 9\/11, readers are intimately connected with\neach struggle, whether it is with racism, isolation, finding their cultural\nidentity, or repairing the wounds of their upbringing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When they Aurora\nPublic Library (APL) first heard of this year\u2019s One eRead Canada program, they\nimmediately jumped on board. According to APL\u2019s Ashley Nunn-Smith, Manager of\nContent, Access and Innovation, it was a way of maximizing opportunities for a\nkey demographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the APL\u2019s One\nBook One Aurora campaign is ongoing, this was a prime opportunity to have an\nunlimited number of copies of a single book available for the Library\u2019s growing\nnumber of members who prefer reading books on their devices because licensing e-books\ncan often lead to limited available copies. Additionally, increasing access to\nan Indigenous author was a chance to provide both a \u201cmirror\u201d and a \u201cwindow\u201d for\nlibrary users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSometimes something\nlike Indigenous reads, women\u2019s books, or Pride books, we sometimes [as readers]\ntend to shove them to the side a little bit for being for the people featured\nin the book, but we wanted to open that up and say there are some really great\nbooks out there that should be checked out,\u201d says Ms. Nunn-Smith. \u201cIt was also,\nof course, very timely with the National Inquiry into Missing & Murdered\nIndigenous Women just coming out and I think it is on people\u2019s radars. While\nthis book is interconnected short stories with four First Nations characters,\nthe book doesn\u2019t have to be for the people depicted. We librarians talk about\nbooks being either a mirror or a window. This could be a mirror for some of our\nreaders or, I think, a window for a lot of others.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ms. Nunn-Smith,\nGlass Beads will likely serve as a window into the lives of others and she\u2019s\neagerly looking forward to savouring the book and joining in the conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To join in the\nconversation, head over to aurorapl.ca to check out a copy for the e-reader or\nplatform of your choice and then join the conversation on their online book\nclub via Facebook and share your thoughts on social media using the hashtag\n#1eReadLivrelCanada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is connecting\npeople from coast to coast to coast,\u201d says Ms. Nunn-Smith. \u201cThis might be a\ndifferent perspective that people haven\u2019t read before, then people can join the\nconversation happening around it, maybe they can be exposed to other people\u2019s\nperspectives of the book and see how it may or may not reflect their lives\nthrough the online discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on the program, including\nlinks to the Facebook discussion, visit aurorapl.ca\/content\/one-eread-canada.<\/p>\n\r\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pick up your tablet or e-reader and borrow a free copy of Dawn Dumont\u2019s \u201cGlass Beads\u201d to join in a nation-wide conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019-06-20-05.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-6fN","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 10:01:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}