Columbus Metropolitan Library and our Local History & Genealogy division are hosting this free virtual event.

Ask questions and live chat with LH&G staff and guest speakers from your computer or mobile device.

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Join us as Professor Kathryn Magee Labelle weaves the story of the Wendat/Wandat women in her book Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations.

Professor Kathryn Magee Labelle’s Daughters📷 of Aataentsic highlights and connects the unique lives of seven Wendat/Wandat women whose legacies are still felt today. Spanning the continent and the colonial borders of New France, British North America, Canada, and the United States, this book shows how Wendat people and place came together in Ontario, Quebec, Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and how generations of activism became intimately tied with notions of family, community, motherwork, and legacy from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century.

Dr. Kathryn Labelle is an Associate Professor of Indigenous history in North America at the University of Saskatchewan and an honorary member of the Wyandot Nation of Kansas. Her research centers on the Wendat/Wyandot/Huron communities with particular interest in settler colonialism, Indigenous identity and the experiences of women from the seventeenth century to the present.