IN MY OWN MOCCASINS

Winner of the 2020 Saskatchewan Book Award for Indigenous Peoples' Publishing and long listed for the 2020 RBC Taylor Prize, IN MY OWN MOCCASINS is a national bestseller and received widespread critical acclaim. The Globe and Mail called it “Intelligent, courageous, emotionally searing,” and Eden Robinson, author of the Trickster series, said it was “the best kind of memoir: clear-eyed, generous, and glorious. . . Bear witness to the emergence of one of the most powerful voices of her generation”

Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption.With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit.

Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In 2016, Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being
committed to end gender-based violence. IN MY OWN MOCCASINS is her first book. Penguin Random House Canada has acquired World English audio rights and will be publishing Helen's next memoir (currently scheduled for 2023).