Dominique Rankin
After a successful career in politics and serving as Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation in Canada, Chief Dominique Rankin turned his focus to his role as a spiritual leader. He has since devoted his efforts to teaching and healing, as well as preserving and promoting the cultural legacies of Indigenous Peoples, both on the national and international stage. Elder Dominique is the co-chair of the World Council of Religions for Peace - an organization affiliated with the United Nations - as well as a Member of the Order of Canada and a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. To many, however, he is simply Grandfather Dominique, a man known for his boundless energy, his irrepressible sense of humour, and the wide-reaching message of peace and harmony he shares around the world.
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Synopsis:
Young Dominique Rankin was intended to succeed his father as Algonquin Hereditary Chief and Medicine Man. Before that could happen, the Government of Canada’s policies of Indigenous assimilation wrested the boy from his home to entrust him to the infamous Indian residential school system. There, like thousands of Indigenous children across North America, Dominique would endure a terrible ordeal. Only upon leaving the school years later would the young man finally be free to begin a long journey of healing and self-discovery that would reunite him with his heritage and his true destiny.
Weaving the Prophecy of the Seven Fires’ teachings with the powerful narrative of his own tumultuous life, Chief Dominique Rankin delivers a vibrant testimony on respect, forgiveness, and healing. In this poignant memoir, the residential school Survivor, Elder, Medicine Man, and former Grand Chief of the Algonquin Nation bares all—the dark and the light alike—to unshroud a chapter of our sombre collective past and to illuminate a path to a better, brighter future.
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160 pages | 6.00" x 9.00" | Paperback
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