Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds

Indigenous Author: Patty Krawec
Non-Fiction, 2025
Paperback

Patty Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory and residing in Niagara Falls. She has served on the board of the Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre and co-hosted the Medicine for the Resistance podcast, and she is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation which challenges settlers to pay rent for living on Indigenous land. As a social worker, Patty focused on supporting victims of sexual and gendered violence and child abuse and was an active union member throughout her career. Her current work and writing, focusing on how Anishinaabe belonging and thought can inform faith and social justice practices, has been published in Sojourners, Rampant Magazine, Midnight Sun, Yellowhead Institute, Indiginews, Religion News Service, and Broadview. Krawec’s first book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future was published in 2022.

University Of Toronto Press
5.8 x 9"
9781773104614