Cook County Community Read - Potluck & Discussion The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves

02/29/2024 05:30 PM - 07:00 PM CT

Admission

  • Free  -  In person
  • Free  -  Online over Zoom

Description

Cook County Community Read - Potluck & Discussion The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves
February 29 | 5:30pm-7pm At CCHE or 6pm-7pm Zoom
In Person Facilitator: Staci Lola Drouillard

 

There is a power in the stories we read–to connect us with experiences beyond our own. Besides being a relaxing hobby, reading can create space for self-reflection and can also give us an effective way to have real conversations with our families, friends, co-workers, and neighbors.

Join the community in reading 
The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolveduring the month of February & March. We hope that this community read series will equip and inspire our community, both adults and youth, to imagine and create a more inclusive and equitable world. When we as a community read together, we become part of something bigger than ourselves.


Join us for an in-person or Zoom book group-book discussion and potluck at Cook County Higher Education. This Community Read is a book club that everyone in the community is welcome to attend!


Book Details: The Wolf's Trail: An Ojibwe Story, Told by Wolves
"The Wolf’s Trail is a series of connected stories within a larger story. Zhi-shay, the Uncle wolf, is an old, wise wolf who “talks story” with the pups about creation, love, family, survival, and the Anishinaabe people. The stories are told to help the young wolves learn about the history of their world, the relationships between all living creatures, the nature around them, and the cycle of life and death. It’s the story of the importance of passing on wisdom, of passing on the wolf’s story; and through the wolf’s stories, the passing on of the Anishinaabe’s story."
 
Event Outline:
Zoom - 6pm Welcome, 6-46:45pm Small Group Discussion, 6:45-7pm pm Large Group Discussion with zoom and in-person attendees. 
 
In Person at CCHE - 5:30-6pm Potluck (Not required to attend), 6pm Welcome, 6-6:45pm Small Group Discussion, 6:45-7pm pm Large Group Discussion with zoom and in-person attendees. Please bring a dish to share during the potluck. 

Book Group In Person Facilitator:  
Staci Lola Drouillard lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. A Grand Portage tribal descendant, she has degrees from the University of Minnesota. Her first book, Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe was awarded the Hamlin Garland prize for popular history from the Midwestern History Association, won the NE Minnesota Book Award for non-fiction, and was a finalist for a MN Book Award. Her most recent book, Seven Aunts, is an unconventional portrait of family and women’s lives in northern Minnesota.
 
Partners: Drury Lane BooksGrand Marais Public Library, CARE, and Cook County Higher Education.

 

 
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