The Whitchurch-Stouffville Museum, along with the Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville are honored to host Waubgeshig Rice, celebrated Anishinaabe writer and journalist, for an author talk at Stouffville’s 19 on the Park Theatre on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00PM. This event is an opportunity to hear from Waubgeshig Rice as he reflects on how his national bestseller ‘Moon of the Turning Leaves’ and his other titles were influenced by his culture, traditions, and upbringing at Wasauksing First Nation.
Waubgeshig Rice’s exhilarating return to the world first explored in Moon of the Crusted Snow is a brooding story of survival, resilience, Indigenous identity, and rebirth.
In the years since a mysterious cataclysm caused a permanent blackout that toppled infrastructure and thrust the world into anarchy, Evan Whitesky has led his community in remote northern Canada off the rez and into the bush, where they’ve been rekindling their Anishinaabe traditions, isolated from the outside world. As new generations are born, and others come of age in a world after everything, Evan’s people are stronger than ever. But resources around their new settlement are drying up, and elders warn that they cannot stay indefinitely.
Evan and his teenaged daughter, Nangohns, are chosen to lead a scouting party on a months-long trip down to their traditional home on the shores of Lake Huron—to seek new beginnings, and discover what kind of life—and what danger—still exists in the lands to the south.
