Community Read - The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi
Admission
- Free - In Person
- Free - Online over Zoom
Description
Cook County Community Read - Potluck & Discussion The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi
April 25 | 5:30pm-7pm At CCHE or 6pm-7pm Zoom
In Person Facilitator: Staci Lola Drouillard
The first 10 people to register who live or work in Cook County will be offered the option of a FREE copy of the book.
Drury Lane Books also has these books avaible for sale (arrived 4/9).
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 Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi during the month of April & May. 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 Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi written by Elin Anna Labba, translated by Fiona Graham.
"The deep and personal story—told through history, poetry, and images—of the forced displacement of the Sámi people from their homeland in northern Norway and Sweden and its reverberations today. In a remarkable blend of historical reportage, memoir, and lyrical reimagining, Elin Anna Labba travels to northern Norway and Sweden, the lost homeland of her ancestors, to tell of the forced displacement of the Indigenous Sámi in the early twentieth century. Through stories, photographs, letters, and joik lyrics, she gathers a chorus of Sámi expression that resonates across the years, evoking the nomadic life they were required to abandon and the immense hardship they endured."
"In 2023 the book was translated into English by Fiona Graham and published by University of Minnesota Press under the title The Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow: The Forced Displacement of the Northern Sámi. The Gentlemen Put Us Here is the literal translation of the Swedish title, however, a different name was chosen for the English translation of the work.
The same year the original was published, it was also translated into Northern Sámi under the title Hearrát dat bidje min: bággojohtimiid birra and from Swedish to Norwegian Bokmål in 2021 as Herrene sendte oss hit: om tvangsflyttingen av samene."
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.