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Margaret Jacobs

Margaret Jacobs

Reconciliation as a Way of Life and Sustained Relationship: White Women and Settler Colonialism

A descendant of White settlers of Indigenous lands, Margaret Jacobs is an award-winning author and professor of history and gender studies who has focused for over two decades on Indigenous child removal and family separation. She studies the history of the American West in a transnational and comparative context with a focus on women, children, and families. Her Bancroft Prize-winning book, White Mother to a Dark Race (2009), concerns government-enforced removal of Indigenous children from their families, and the role of White as well as Indigenous women with respect to those policies. Her most recent projects delve into truth-telling, healing, and reconciliation efforts between Indigenous peoples and settlers, including through voluntary land repatriation. "I have come to see reconciliation not as a one-time effort," she says. but "as a practice, as a way of life, in which all of us can engage" by uncovering the history of our land and place, and through sustained, respectful relationships. Read Full Bio »

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Awakin Calls is an initiative of ServiceSpace, a global, all-volunteer community dedicated to small acts of great love. Our webinar and podcast series highlights the outer work and inner journeys of individuals who are transforming our world in large and small ways. We aim to inspire and seed shifts in consciousness by highlighting paradigm-shifting ways of being and doing in the world. We are a heart-centered learning community across wisdom traditions exploring the ServiceSpace principle of “change yourself, change the world”. We organize our processes in accordance with the principles we seek to lift up, and so each conversation is co-created by a team of volunteers distributed across the world, in a spirit of intrinsically motivated service and kinship.

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