The Metabolism of Mythology and the Breaking of Spells: a conversation with Tad Hargrave
Update: 2021-04-29
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DDO has a conversation with the roaming bard, Tad Hargrave.We went in DEEP on the power of story, Gaelic, grief, love, living into our names and the labouring rebirth of culture. “When you have no kinship, all you get is identity.”We could have talked all day. About Tad Hargrave: Since 2000, Tad found himself drawn toconversations about what became of his animist Scottish ancestors thatthey become ‘white’ and ‘modern’. Between Sept 2004 – Feb 2006, Taddedicated himself to learning his ancestral language, Scottish Gaelic,in both Nova Scotia and Scotland. He can speak Gaelic withconversational fluency. He also runs a blog called Healing fromWhiteness as well having run, for a while, as a Facebook group of thesame name. He is a co-founder of the Nova Scotia Gael’s Jam andco-starred in Canada’s second Gaelic language film The Fiddler’s Reel.Tad was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta (traditionally known, inthe local indigenous language of the Cree, as Amiskwaciy (Beaver Hill)and later Amiskwaciwaskihegan (Beaver Hill House) and his ancestorscome primarily from Scotland with some from Ukraine as well. He isdrawn to conversations around politics, history, ancestry, healing andhow it all came to be.
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