A Conversation with Joséphine Bacon

Joséphine Bacon is a member of the First Nations in Canada and shares her experiences growing up in the Innu society as they made the change from traditional lifeways into the more sedentary life of reservation living.

She shares her experiences through her poetry and has been nominated for, and won, several awards.

Her readings will be in both French and Innu.

Tuesday, March 22, 5:00-7:00 pm
Special Collections
4th Floor, Golda Meir Library
UW-Milwaukee, 2311 E. Hartford Ave.

More info here.

Photo Credit

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.