The Massey Lectures Series

The Massey Lectures Series The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by cbc Radio, House of Anansi Press, and Massey College, in the University of Toronto. The Series was created in honour of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey , former governor general of Canada, and was inaugurated in 1961 to provide a forum on radio where major contemporary thinkers could address important issues of our time. This book comprises the 2003 Massey Lectures , The Truth About Stories, broadcast in November 2003 as part of cbc Radio's Ideas Series . The producer of the Series was Philip Coulter;. the executive producer was Bernie Lucht. Thomas King Thomas King holds a in English/American Studies from the University of Utah and has taught Native Studies at Utah, Minnesota, and Alberta for the past twenty-five years. He is cur- rently Professor of English (teaching Native Literature and Creative Writing) at the University of Guelph.

Pluto looked good. Tiny, cold, lonely. As far from the sun as you could get. I’m sure part of it was teenage angst, and part of it was being poor in a rich country, and part of it was knowing that white was more than just a colour. And part of it was seeing the world through my mother’s eyes. My mother raised my brother and me by herself, in an

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