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Lyrically it explores questions related to colonialism, racism, Indigenous identity and more. Musically, the album consciously fuses a variety of Indigenous musical traditions with hip-hop music. In the midst of public discussion about residential schools and their legacies this is a poignant novel for us to take up and explore.įurther, Huron1Read has selected a music album to accompany the book: “We Are the Halluci Nation” by The Halluci Nation (formerly called A Tribe Called Red). Son of a Trickster explores Indigenous identity in the present-day Canadian colonial context combining the tropes of teenage fantasy fiction with Indigenous spirituality and gritty realism. I’m excited to tell you the 2021-22 Huron1Read text is Eden Robinson’s novel, Son of a Trickster. This allows us to have an intellectually engaging and ongoing conversation as a community about the themes raised in the Huron1Read. With Huron1Read, the Huron community-students, staff, and faculty-comes together around a book. With that in mind, I am excited to share with you that we are reviving and reimagining a Huron tradition this year: the Huron1Read program.

One of the best parts of Huron is the community we’ve built.

As the Provost and Dean of Arts and Social Science: welcome (back for some of you) to Huron!