Reconciliation Book Clubs

Monthly on the second Thursday on Discord!

Our upcoming schedule!

Part of PANFEST’s mandate is to promote Reconciliation and solidarity with Indigenous peoples within the Pagan community. Education is a crucial part of this work — educating ourselves, as well as passing on the knowledge we gain to the rest of our community. Our monthly panels are an informal conversation, focusing on a different specific topic every month. Our panelists do some learning on their own, and then bring what they found to the panels for discussion.

We’ve been doing book clubs for our panel topics recently, which means that you all can participate in the pre-panel learning! Take a look at our schedule below to see what the next year has to offer.

Chat participation is not only allowed, but encouraged. We hope that these panels can be a way for our community to learn together in a non-judgemental environment, so bring your thoughts and questions! Feel free to check out our Educational Resources page if you feel like you need more of an introduction into some of these issues.

Book Clubs are held on the second Thursday of every month at 7:30 PM MT

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Virtual Book Club on Discord

Register for the PANFEST Discord Server.

We’ve added a stage channel to the PANFEST Discord Hub — check out our tutorial! The stage will allow people to participate in the book club either in the ‘audience’ (all we can see is your username and picture) or ‘on stage’ (where you can talk and/or be on video). 

You will need special channel permissions to get on stage, so please reach out to events@panfest.ca if you’re interested in speaking!

Schedule

March 13, 2025 → Reservation Dogs Season 2 by Sterlin Harjo & Taika Waititi (Add to Google Calendar)

April 10 and May 15, 2025 – Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

June 12, 2025 – To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose 

July 10, 2025 – A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby

August 2025 at Lughnasadh Festival – discussion

September 18, 2025 – Reservation Dogs Season 3 by Sterlin Harjo & Taika Waititi

October 16, 2025 – Hope Matters by Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, & Tania Carter (poetry)

November 13, 2025 – Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940 by Maureen Katherine Lux

December 11, 2025 – Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

January 8, 2026 – Stories from the Magic Canoe of Wa’xaid by Cecil Paul, as told to Briony Penn

February 12, 2026 – The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

March 12, 2026 – Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat & Emily Kassie

April 9, 2026 – Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations by Richard Wagamese

Watch, read and join in!

Reservation Dogs is available for streaming on CBC Gem, Disney+, Crave, and Hulu

Get A Two-Spirit Journey by Ma-Nee Chacaby
Get Hope Matters by Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter
Get Medicine That Walks by Maureen Katherine Lux

July 10

Book cover for A Two-Spirit Journey. Ma-Nee Chacaby, an Oji-Cree person, is gazing up with a peaceful expression and holding a drum and rattle. Ma-Chee is wearing a black ribbon-shirt with blue, red and yellow ribbons.

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder by Ma-Nee Chacaby

September 18

Reservation Dogs promo

Reservation Dogs Season 3 by Sterlin Harjo & Taika Waititi

Reservation Dogs is available for streaming on CBC Gem, Disney+, Crave, and Hulu

October 16

Hope Matters book cover

Hope Matters by Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter.

Written by multiple award-winning author Lee Maracle and her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter, Hope Matters focuses on the journey of Indigenous people from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. Maracle states that the book “is also about the journey of myself and my two daughters.”

November 13

Book cover image for Medicine That Walks - sepia-toned photograph of two indigenous people standing in front of some trees.

Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People, 1880-1940 by Maureen Katherine Lux.

Challenging the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with European disease, Lux argues that the diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but grinding poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding.

Biological invasion, Lux argues, was accompanied by military, cultural, and economic invasions, which, combined with the loss of the bison herds and forced settlement on reserves, led to population decline.

March 13

Reservation Dogs promo

Reservation Dogs Season 2 by Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi.

April 10 and May 15

Book cover for Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec. Beaded flowers. leaves and berries against a black background.Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future by Patty Krawec

June 12

To Shape a Dragon's Breath cover. Featuring an emblem of a red dragon's head holding a branch with two flowers on it on either end. An occult-like symbol is in the background, overlayed on shapes of treetops below and stars above.

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

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May 2022

Topic: Allyship — Amplifying Voices vs. Taking up Space
Panelists: Maddy & Daray

July 2022

Topic: Friendship Centres
Panelists: Candy & Ivannia

October 2022

Topic: Another Look at Land
Panelists: Sokende, Maddy, Rob, & Teryn

December 2022

Topic: Sharing, Taking, & Gifting
Panelists: Daray & Candy

February 2023

Topic: The Indian Act (Pt 1)
Panelists: Sokende & Teryn

April 2023

Topic: Book Club — 21 Things You May Not Know About The Indian Act
Panelists: Ivannia, Galena, Sokende, & Emma

June 2022

Topic: Terminology — What Does it all Mean?
Panelists: Emma & Ivannia

September 2022

Topic: #LandBack
Panelists: Teryn & Sokende

November 2022

Topic: Treaties
Panelists: Emma, Tokla, & Sokende

January 2023

Topic: Status vs. Non-Status: What Does it Mean?
Panelists: Jon, Maddy, & Emma

March 2023

Topic: Treaty 6
Panelists: Emma, Lisa, Sokende, & Teryn