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Indigenous-authored novels: 5 great contemporary reads for young adults

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Thursday, September 28, 2023
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First Voices is a Grade 11 English course that replaces works by authors like Shakespeare and Fitzgerald with texts authored by Indigenous writers like Cherie Dimaline and Richard Wagamese.

Key Points: 
  • First Voices is a Grade 11 English course that replaces works by authors like Shakespeare and Fitzgerald with texts authored by Indigenous writers like Cherie Dimaline and Richard Wagamese.
  • Over the summer, our Indigenous literatures lab, led by Haudenosaunee scholar Jennifer Brant at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, examined contemporary Indigenous-authored young adult texts that are well-suited for the First Voices course.

Importance of Indigenous perspectives

    • With the replacement of long-read literature comes the task of selecting texts that centre Indigenous resurgence and what Indigenous literary scholar Gerald Vizenor refers to as survivance.
    • We hope to see the stories in classrooms across the country that centre Indigenous community narratives from the voices of Indigenous Peoples.

Upholding responsibilities

    • As Cherokee author and scholar Daniel Heath Justice writes, good stories are needed that give “shape, substance and purpose” to Indigenous Peoples’ existences and shed light on how to uphold responsibilities to one another and to creation.
    • These stand in contrast to stories Justice discusses as “bad medicine,” stories often imposed from the outside, from the perspective of the colonizer.

Engaging with books

    • We encourage educators to take a strength-based perspective when discussing Indigenous literature, and also to take an anti-racist approach.
    • Anti-racist approaches acknowledge varied experiences of racism, and would help students think critically about their own lives in relationship to these books.
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      Books featured here are highly acclaimed, and show narratives of Indigenous resurgence.

    • It is a story about a Métis-Anishinaabe teen and her family who are drastically impacted by a violent crime in Winnipeg.
    • As investigations uncover many unknowns, readers get meaningful insights into the realities of various characters whose lives are intricately woven together.
    • Maracle followed Ravensong with Celia’s Song, a finalist in the 2020 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

Indigenous Watchdog challenges Manitoba’s Speech from the Throne that commits to reconciliation

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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Indigenous Watchdog tracks and reports on how reconciliation is progressing in Canada.

Key Points: 
  • HAMILTON, Ontario, Dec. 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Indigenous Watchdog tracks and reports on how reconciliation is progressing in Canada.
  • To add even further insult, the conclusion of the Speech from the Throne repeats all the above priorities except, you guessed it - Advancing Reconciliation - which again is completely ignored and literally and physically erased from the document.
  • In the last Speech from the Throne the government committed to "significant efforts towards reconciliation" while the current government committed to "Advancing Reconciliation".
  • In the preamble to the speech, immediately after the Land Acknowledgement, the Speech states that "The crown underpins our constitutional relationships with the federal and provincial governments and Indigenous communities."

Principal Photography Begins on the Crave Original Series, LITTLE BIRD

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Monday, April 18, 2022
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The series will be available to audiences in English and French, and Fremantle will handle international distribution.

Key Points: 
  • The series will be available to audiences in English and French, and Fremantle will handle international distribution.
  • "Crave is committed to telling compelling stories that resonate with all Canadians, and LITTLE BIRD is a powerful story that must be told," said Justin Stockman, Vice President, Content Development and Programming, Bell Media.
  • "We are honoured to collaborate with our partners at Rezolution, APTN, and OP Little Bird to share LITTLE BIRD with Crave audiences."
  • Bezhig's sense of identity shatters and she is forced to reckon with who she is and who she wants to become.