On Wednesday, November 17, at 6-8PM, via Zoom, join Cook Memorial Library and Chocorua Lake Conservancy for “Healing Begins with Truth: Understanding Colonization” with Maine-Wabanaki REACH. In this 2-hour educational experience, participants explore the differences between the worldview and culture of indigenous peoples and settlers (and their descendants). Using historical and present-day examples, participants will examine the deliberate strategies of colonization and resulting impacts on indigenous people, land, and culture. This program is intended to serve as a safe space for participants to join with peers and identify strategies to support healing in relation to each other and to the land. Maine-Wabanaki REACH says of their workshops, “Today we are creating a community together.  We are not experts; you are not experts. We will learn from the materials we experience together and from what we share with each other about our own experiences and thoughts.”  This is a participatory workshop in which you will be asked to leave your screens on. Space is limited; please register by November 14.

This program is part of “Wabanaki History, Ecology & Experiences,” a series of programs exploring Indigenous history and experiences in what is now called northern New England, a collaboration between the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth and the Chocorua Lake Conservancy, made possible through a generous grant from The Tamworth Foundation. Please join us in 2022 for additional programming. For more information, visit tamworthlibrary.org or chocorualake.org.

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