In new memoir, activist Thomas-Muller traces impact of extraction industries on First Nations, and his own life – Vancouver Sun
Sep 01, 2021
The memoir, Life in the City of Dirty Water, also charts Clayton Thomas-Muller’s journey from community work to international activism with climate group 350.org.
In his recently published memoir, Clayton Thomas-Muller relates a childhood of abuse and dislocation. Uprooted from his ancestral home in northern Manitoba, he and his mother struggle to make a new life in Winnipeg.
“One of my goals is to share my experience as a First Nations Cree man growing up in an inner-city in Canada,” Thomas-Muller said. “Being a child of parents who both went to residential school is a shared experience. Growing up in the ’90s and being impacted by gang culture is very much a shared experience that continues to echo even now in the Native community. A lot of us share the intergenerational impact that came with Canada’s 150 years of genocidal residential school policy.”
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