The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic

The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the AtlanticCan literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty first century? What might nation to nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts

Frog by Haida artist

Grade: for grades 9-12

The first-ever biography written about a woman of the Northwest Coast's Kwakwakawakw people

Deborah Ellis gives children a voice that they may not otherwise have the opportunity to express so readily in the mainstream media

I can t wait to start the first of many projects

which transformed Manitoba education

October 15

Learn colours and words with indigenous artists from all over Canada

By treating Indigenous life-writings as carefully crafted aesthetic creations and interrogating their relationship to more overtly politicized historical discourses

It was only in later life that healing began to take place

he brings a new line to bear on the role Native art has played in the negotiation of social and geographical spaces in British Columbia

We can all learn about this fascinating culture as we read Gana’s story