Rhonda Italiano has been a Licensed Unity Teacher since 2005. She has been teaching Unity classes around the Twin Cities for several years. Rhonda teaches for the State of Minnesota in Gender & Women’s Studies. She holds a Master’s Degree in Adult Education and another Master’s Degree in Gender & Women’s Studies.
Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land, to one another, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical, scientific, and cultural analysis, Indigenous ways of knowing, and the vivid threads of communal memory, Krawec crafts a stunning, forceful call to "unforget" our history.
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.
*Please read through page 24 before the first meeting.
The book is available for purchase through Amazon.com.
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Book Study - Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec
with Rhonda Italiano
Mondays ~ September 11 – October 16, 2023 (6 weeks)
7:00 – 8:30 pm CDT (Hybrid ~ In-Person and on Zoom)
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