Let the People Speak Anthology Reading Counts Level: 5

Reading Counts Level: 5

he can feel the presence of salmon in the river but there is more in the haunting descriptions of environmental loss in this play

This Gwich'in title is designed to highlight one of the official Aboriginal language groups in the Northwest Territories

The author

Gerald Vizenor

Let the People Speak Anthology Reading Counts Level: 5Let the People Speak: Oppression in a Time of Reconciliation author and journalist Sheilla Jones raises an important question: are the well documented social inequities in Indigenous communities high levels of poverty, suicide, incarceration, children in care, family violence the symptoms of this long standing, institutionalized powerlessness? If so, the solution lies in empowerment. Over the past fifty years, Canada's Indigenous Affairs department