Quiet Book Club
A no-pressure Book Club! A joint initiative between the Library and the Centre of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship
Join us Wednesday, March 26, 2025 for Long Night Against Procrastination #LNAP
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Join us Wednesday, March 26, 2025 for Long Night Against Procrastination #LNAP
Red Deer Polytechnic recognizes that our campus is situated on Treaty 7 land, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot, Tsuu T’ina and Stoney Nakoda peoples, and that the central Alberta region we serve falls under Treaty 6, traditional Métis, Cree and Saulteaux territory.
We honour the First Peoples who have lived here since time immemorial, and we give thanks for the land where Red Deer Polytechnic sits. This is where we will strive to honour and transform our relationships with one another.
Visit the RDP Library Indigenous Resources Guide.
June is Indigenous Book Club Month!
This initiative was launched in 2016 by previous Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs, Carolyn Bennett, who encouraged the reading of books by Indigenous authors "to provide an opportunity to learn and begin those difficult conversations about the stories, history and cultures which we never learned about in school." (via CICON)
The Quiet Book Club marked the first year of the Indigenous Book Club Month by featuring The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King.
by Angeline Boulley
by Thomas King with illustration by Natasha Donovan
by Cherie Dimaline
by Waubgeshig Rice
by David A. Robertson
by Joshua Whitehead
by Aimée Craft with illustrations by Luke Swinson
by Carole Lindstrom with illustrations by Michaela Goade
by Wab Kinew with pictures by Joe Morse
by Tasha Spillett-Sumner with illustrations by Michaela Goade
by David A. Robertson with illustrations by Julie Flett
by Clayton Thomas-Muller
by Linda M. Goulet and Keith N. Goulet
by Eldon Yellowhorn & Kathy Lowinger
foreword by Alicia Elliott
by Alicia Elliott
“Most of us think history is the past. It’s Not. History is the stories we tell about the past.” - Thomas King
"'Oh, I’ve read about Indians. Beautiful people they are. But you’re not exactly Indians, are you? What’s the proper word for people like you?' one asked." - Beatrice Culleton Mosionier
“To be hurt, yet forgive. To do wrong, but forgive yourself. To depart from this world leaving only love. This is the reason you walk.” - Wab Kinew
"Don’t call me that,” I said. “Call me Indian. That’s the name white people gave us hundreds of years ago. You might as well keep using it.” - Fred Sasakamoose
To honour Indigenous Book Club Month, the Library partnered with the Centre for Teaching and Learning's Quiet Book Club and held our first Book Talk event to highlight Indigenous authors.
Panelists presented a variety of must-read Indigenous titles:
And these titles were suggested by Book Talk attendees:
These books are available at RDP Library. Add them to your summer reading list and check them out!
#IndigenousReads
