Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun: Portraits of Everyday Life in Eight Indigenous Communities - Seesequasis, Paul

Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; A revelatory portrait of eight Indigenous communities from across North America, shown through archival photographs--a gorgeous extension of Paul Seesequasis's popular social media project. In 2015, Seesequasis found himself grappling with the devastating findings of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on the residential school system. He sought understanding and inspiration in the stories of his mother, herself a residential school survivor. Gradually, Paul realized that another, mostly untold history existed alongside the official one: that of how Indigenous peoples and communities had held together during even the most difficult times. He embarked on a social media project to collect archival photos capturing everyday life in First Nations, Metis and Inuit communities from the 1920s through the 1970s. Blanket Toss Under Midnight Sun collects some of the most arresting images and stories from Paul's project. While many of the photographs live in public archives, most have never been shown to the people in the communities they represent. As such, Blanket Toss is not only an invaluable historical record, it is a meaningful act of reclamation, showing the ongoing resilience of Indigenous communities, past, present--and future.
Fine
Soft cover
Knopf Canada
2019
Toronto, ON