Marie-Josee Tardif
Marie-Josee Tardif spent the first fifteen years of her professional career making a name for herself as a journalist and news anchor in Canada and the UK. Her personal and journalist curiosity soon drew her to questions surrounding the human potential, and on her journey for answers, she met and interviewed visionaries such as Eckhart Tolle, Don Miguel Ruiz, and the Dalai Lama, In 2007, her life would change forever after the Elders of the Algonquin Nation invited her to become a Sacred Pipe Carrier, an honour that would entail a lifelong commitment to the study of Anishinaabe Traditional Medicine and culture. In addition to sitting on several international committees, including the Global Women of Faith Network, the woman now known as Kokom or Grandmother Marie-Josee is - with Elder Dominique - the co-founder of the Dominique Rankin Foundation and the non-profit organization Kina8at, two organizations dedicated to the preservation and transmission of Indigenous traditions.
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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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