Manitowapow: A Preview
My family holds reunions at the St. Peter’s church virtually every summer, just north of Selkirk and on the banks of the Red River in southern Manitoba. Growing up, I never knew why we did, nor cared really; the homemade pie was far more of a concern. Last summer, we held races, a candy scramble,...
REVIEWS: ‘Windigo,’ ‘A Flesh Offering’ & ‘A Windigo Tale’ at imagineNATIVE 2010
FILMS REVIEWED: Windigo 11 min | 2009 | Canada Directed by Kris Happyjack-McKenzie Screens at imagineNATIVE Friday Oct. 22 @ 9 pm, Al Green Theatre (Bloor at Spadina) MI Rating: ★★★ (out of 5) —————— ◊ —————— A Flesh Offering 95 min | 2010 | Canada Directed by Jeremy Torrie. Starring Kaniehtho Horn & Eric...
An Ink-stained Response to ‘Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry’ (Pt. 2)
Picking up where Part One left off, this piece is the second in a two-part response to Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation. It originally appeared in somewhat different forms in guest editorial/commentaries for Kanata (Vol. 1) and the Winter 2009 (#203) issue of Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and...
An Ink-stained Response to ‘Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry’ (Pt. 1)
The following piece originally appeared in somewhat different forms in guest editorials/commentaries for Kanata (Vol. 1) and Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review in its Winter 2009 (#203) issue. I’ve always hated pencils and erasers. I was first forced in grade two to use them, in handwriting class. My teacher said, “We use pencils...
A Beginning and an Ending, FNUC and mediaINDIGENA
In 1976, two major events happened. The first, my birth, went largely unnoticed — except of course by my parents and family. Now, thirty-four years later, I join with the other members of mediaINDIGENA in another “birth” of sorts — one that we hope won’t go unnoticed. Here’s to a fair and balanced conversation beginning among...
