Does art offer the best path to heal historical wrongs?

More from this episode:

• Truth, Dialogue & Storytelling: PattiLaboucane-Bensonon art and healing
• IsGordDownie'sSecret Path 'the heart and essence of his age?'
• WatchGordDownie'sThe Secret Path tonight (Sunday Oct. 23) at 9PM

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Guests

JosephBoyden, award-winning author of many novels including Three Day Road and TheOrendaand most recentlyWenjackthe story ofChanieWenjackwho ran away from residential school and died of exposure in 1966.
Twitter:@josephboyden

SusanAglukark,Inuksinger and songwriter, winner of threeJuno awards and recipient of The Order of Canada in 2005.
Twitter: @S_Aglukark

Ry Moran, Director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation at the University of Manitoba.
Twitter: @rymoran

KenCoates, Canada Research Chair in Regional Innovation at theJohnson-ShoyamaGraduate School of Public Policy University of Saskatchewan.
Twitter: @kenscoates

Links & Articles

CBC.ca

• Secret Path
• Why all Canadians need to follow in the example of Gord Downie
• With Secret Path, Gord Downie is illuminating a way forward to Indigenous artists
• Meet the journalist who inspired Gord Downie and Joseph Boyden to write about Chanie Wenjack
• "I want the reader to be Chanie": Joseph Boyden tells Chanie Wenjack's story
• Gord Downie's Secret Path brings hope to Chanie Wenjack's family, 50 years after boy's death
• 'The most emotional thing I've ever done': Jeff Lemire on illustrating Gord Downie's Secret Path
• Chanie Wenjack: a 50-year-old tragedy rises up to inspire a new generation
• Arts in the North: the past will prepare youth for the future
• A reconciliation reading list: 15 must-read books

Maclean's

• The Lonely Death of Chanie Wenjack, by Ian Adams (Feb. 1, 1967)
• Joseph Boyden imagines Chanie Wenjack's final, terrible hours
• Winnipeg's new art project stares down racism in the face

Globe and Mail

• The author's novella Wenjack tells the story of an Objiwa boy who froze to death after fleeing a residential school
• We Can't Make the Same Mistake Twice exposes Canada's barriers to reconciliation

Mail & Guardian Africa

• 10 African artists doing amazing things with recycled material

The Guardian

• How not to talk about African fiction