Becoming Kin

“This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history, myth, identity, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource, and to unravel the history we have been taught.”

Read more about Becoming Kin here.

The Author

Visit Patty Krawec’s website here.

Buy Patty Krawec’s books from independent Denver booksellers here or here.

Additional Resources

Reservation Dogs came up again in our discussion of this one. Come for the lessons on the use of the phrase “shitass”, stay for the beautiful depiction of what it can look like to move close to a dying loved one.

Louise Erdrich’s first novel in her series for kids, pick this one up if you haven’t already!

I listened to this podcast just before I started reading Becoming Kin and LOVED it. Kaitlin Curtice wrote one of the blurbs on the back of the book!

“It's not just, you know, burning some sage and wearing a headband and clearing your space of negative energies. It's about who is maintaining authority.” Patty Krawec letting Rachel Martin (and the rest of us) know.