![]() Released in 2019 and winner of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Peoples’ Publishing Award 2020, Knott’s author debut is an unflinching recount of her experiences and struggles with sexual violence and addiction. And I know that too because people have reached out to me, thinking that they were the only ones.” ![]() “I know that there are so many women who live with those stories up until their old age and never tell anybody. “I want this book for women who have similar stories, who’ve been through sexual violence and have had a hard time healing,” Knott says. ![]() Within the opening pages of “In My Own Moccasins: A Memoir of Resilience,” Helen Knott, an Indigenous poet and activist, makes it clear that her offering is not to educate or inform people about issues of violence against Indigenous women or colonialism. ![]()
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