{"id":56309,"date":"2018-04-25T23:50:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T23:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56309"},"modified":"2018-04-27T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T16:10:54","slug":"bedside-books-how-half-breed-by-maria-campbell-connected-musician-nick-ferrio-to-his-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56309","title":{"rendered":"Bedside Books: How Half-Breed by Maria Campbell connected musician Nick Ferrio to his grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bedside Books: How <\/strong><\/em>Half-Breed <\/strong>by Maria Campbell connected musician Nick Ferrio to his grandmother<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

CBC Radio<\/a>
\nCanadian Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>
\n2018-04-16<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMusician Nick Ferrio<\/a> examines Maria Campbell’s<\/a> autobiography, Half-Breed<\/em><\/a>, and its depiction of race issues in Canada<\/a>. (Jeff Bierk\/Goodread Biography)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Musician Nick Ferrio<\/a> is based in Peterborough, Ont.<\/a>, but his roots are in Saskatchewan<\/a>. He recently read Maria Campbell’s<\/a> memoir Half-Breed<\/em><\/a> and its account of an Indigenous woman’s encounters with racism, and the book resonated with him, thanks to his own Cree<\/a> ancestry.<\/p>\n

Ferrio’s album Soothsayer<\/em><\/a> also mixes several influences to create a personal style and sound.<\/p>\n

Mapping internal conflict<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I think every Canadian should read Half-Breed<\/em>. It’s an incredible story of a mixed woman whose ancestry is part Cree. She explains the racism she faced in Canada<\/a>. It resonated with me as my paternal grandmother is Cree. Because of the Indian Act<\/a>, her family was forced to leave the reserve. When she moved to Toronto, she had internal racism. She was ashamed of her identity. She passed as white<\/a>, so she blended into white culture in Toronto<\/a>. That’s a dark thing.”..<\/p>\n

Listen to the story here<\/a>. Read the story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Musician Nick Ferrio is based in Peterborough, Ont., but his roots are in Saskatchewan. He recently read Maria Campbell’s memoir “Half-Breed” and its account of an Indigenous woman’s encounters with racism, and the book resonated with him, thanks to his own Cree ancestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,2850,395,19,125,8,3015],"tags":[21842,13560,25461,8128,1392,28569],"class_list":["post-56309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-audio","category-autobiography","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","tag-canadian-broadcasting-corporation","tag-cbc","tag-cbc-radio","tag-maria-campbell","tag-music","tag-nick-ferrio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56323,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56309\/revisions\/56323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}