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The Decolonization Myth

An evening with Patty Krawec

To understand the present and change the future, we must explore the past. Join us for an evening of discovery and exploration.

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day with OPL as we welcome Patty Krawec and explore the topic of The Decolonization Myth: Understanding the role of settler colonialism in how organizations function and the impacts on Indigenous people as a necessary first step to making the kind of change that matters. 

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory, living in Niagara Falls. She serves on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Center and sings with the Strong Water Singers, a hand drum group. She is the cohost of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast, and co-founder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation with journalist Nora Loreto and Blackfoot activist Terril Tailfeathers, challenging settlers to pay their rent for living on Indigenous lands. Patty worked for a sexual assault crisis center for four years, and in child protection for sixteen years. She has a degree in social work. Her writing has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, and elsewhere. Her book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published by Broadleaf Books last fall.

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