Equals and Partners

Canada is poised to reconcile its centuries-long fraught history with Indigenous peoples and to establish justice. What fundamental spiritual principles should guide this challenging process and bring together peoples who have been separated for so long?

In this part-memoir, part-scholarly work, Patricia Verge records her decades-long friendship with the Stoney Nakoda Nation in southern Alberta. She explores how her spiritual journey has been intimately entwined with service among Indigenous people and confronts her own ignorance of the true history of Canada, taking for her guidance this quote from the writings of the Bahá’í Faith: “a massive dose of truth must be administered to heal.”

An engaging and timely work, Equals and Partners is ultimately a story of love and commitment to the principle of the oneness of humanity.

Author Biography

Patricia Verge is a writer and editor who lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta. She is the co-author, with Evelyn Loft Watts, of Return to Tyendinaga: The Story of Jim and Melba Loft, Bahá’í Pioneers, and the author of Angus: From the Heart, both stories of the history of Indigenous people and the Bahá’í Faith.