Michelle Good to Deliver Chancellor鈥檚 Lecture: "Getting Under the Myth of Canadian History"
7 PM
Kinsella Auditorium
Michelle Good will deliver this year’s Chancellor’s Lecture on Thursday, October 16 at 7 PM in the Kinsella Auditorium.
In her lecture, "Getting Under the Myth of Canadian History," she will discuss how Canadian history has never been told through the lens of Indigenous experience and has been shaped to support the colonial venture, casting it in a glorious light rather than exposing the brutality it inflicted upon Indigenous peoples. Until the true history of Canada is known, taught, and absorbed in policy and law, reconciliation cannot occur. Reconciliation cannot be achieved without first arriving at the truth.
About Michelle
Michelle Good is a Cree writer and a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. After working for Indigenous organizations for twenty-five years, she obtained a law degree and advocated for residential school survivors for over fourteen years. Good earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia while still practising law and managing her own law firm.
Her poems, short stories, and essays have been published in magazines and anthologies across Canada, and her poetry was included on two lists of the best Canadian poetry in 2016 and 2017. Five Little Indians, her first novel, won the HarperCollins/UBC Best New Fiction Prize, the Amazon First Novel Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Award, the Evergreen Award, the City of Vancouver Book of the Year Award, and Canada Reads 2022. It was also longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a finalist for the Writer’s Trust Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. On October 7, 2022 Simon Fraser University granted her an Honorary Doctor of Letters. On June 12, 2024 the University of the Fraser Valley granted her an Honourary Doctor of Letters.
Her latest work, Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous life in Canada was released May 30, 2023 and was shortlisted for the Writers Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy, The Indigenous Voices Award, and the Saskatchewan Book Award.