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BC and Yukon Book Prizes Winner of the Bill Duthie Booksellers Choice Award 2023

We all share a common humanity No matter how long or difficult the path ahead we are all one

Reconciliation belongs to everyone In this profound book Chief Robert Joseph globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his presentday role as a leader who inspires individual hope collective change and global transformation

Before we get to know where we are going we need to know where we came from Reconciliation represents a long way forward but it is a pathway toward our higher humanity our highest selves and an understanding that everybody matters In Namwayut Chief Joseph teaches us to transform our relationships with ourselves and each other As we learn about honour and respect the truth of the stories we tell we can also discover how to dismantle the walls of discrimination hatred and racism in our society

Chief Joseph is known as one of the leading voices on peacebuilding in our time and his dedication to reconciliation has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and awards As one of the remaining firstlanguage speakers of Kwakwala his wisdom is grounded in Indigenous ways of knowing while making space for something bigger and better for all of us