Coming Home centres around reclamation\u2013what it means to reclaim one\u2019s personal and family history, community treasures and belongings, and right to truth-telling.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
In this exhibit, I share photographs and treasures within my and my family\u2019s possession to tell my stories: of my mother who was Stl\u2019atl\u2019imx of the L\u00edl\u2019wat, my father who was Visayan of the Philippines, my husband whose roots were of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht, and my journey of presenting these histories as a means of guiding the futures of my grandchildren and later generations.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The stories I tell are of my transpacific Indigenous-Asian life on the west coast of this continent, covering the history of Indigenous-Asian encounters, and Yuquot\u2019s long-standing and continued existence as a global place. My father\u2019s journey to the United States and his migratory work practices travelling up and down the west coast of the continent echo the aspirations of social mobility for Asian settlers. Yet, his story intersects with my mother\u2019s experience when many of her community, like her, left the familiarity of reserve life in Mount Currie and migrated to the city. The multiple places and spaces of migrants in their mobility, however, are juxtaposed to Yuquot\u2019s unique history as a global place of encounter that has always been the home of the Mowachaht\/Muchalaht people. This connectivity is epitomized in the initial arrival of the Chinese on the Pacific Northwest Coast in 1788, which saw the Mowachaht\/Muchalaht people as \u201ccentral actors connecting Europe with Asia via Yuquot.\u201d\u00b9<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Similar to how my own life story is an embodiment of this history, Coming Home invites you to reflect on the past as a means of considering who, where, and when we are.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
kleco kleco, k\u00fakwstum\u0313ckacw, saeamat,\u00b2<\/em> <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n Yakaap (Margaretta James)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Yakaap (Margaretta James) Jennifer Lu Dr. JP Catungal Victoria So\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n Claire Malek Yakaap (Margaretta James) Centre for Asian Canadian Research and Engagement<\/a> <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exhibit Coming Home centres around reclamation\u2013what it means to reclaim one\u2019s personal and family history, community treasures and belongings, and right to truth-telling. In this exhibit, I share photographs and treasures within my and my family\u2019s possession to tell my stories: of my mother who was Stl\u2019atl\u2019imx of the L\u00edl\u2019wat, my father who was Visayan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87775,"featured_media":448,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cominghome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Yakaap (Margaretta James)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u00b9 John Price, \u201cRelocating Yuquot: The Indigenous Pacific and Transpacific Migrations,\u201d BC Studies, no. 204 (2020)<\/a>: 22.<\/h6>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\u00b2 \u201cThank you\u201d in Nuu-Chah-Nulth, Ucwalm\u00edcwts, and Aklanon.<\/h6>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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Stories told by:\u00a0<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Curators:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Victoria So<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nProject Team:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Claire Malek
Julianna Yue<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAcademic Advisors:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Dr. Henry Yu<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nDesign:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Library \/ Installation Team:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Chelsea Shriver
Andrew Sandfort-Marchese
Emily Witherow<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nTreasures Courtesy of:<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Dr. JP Catungal
UBC Rare Books and Special Collections
More details to come<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nUBC Partners (Alphabetical Order):<\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice<\/a>
Library – Chung | Lind Gallery, Rare Books and Special Collections<\/a>
St. John\u2019s College<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
\r\n\r\n\r\nThis project took place on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territory of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam)<\/a> people. We hope that as we facilitate dialogue around Indigenous-Asian encounters through this exhibit, we continue to reflect on what it means to be uninvited guests and settlers on this land that x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m (Musqueam)<\/a> people, since time immemorial, call home.<\/em><\/h4>\r\n\r\n\r\n
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