{"id":4,"date":"2014-01-07T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dswenson\/?p=4"},"modified":"2014-01-07T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T20:37:19","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/dswenson\/2014\/01\/07\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi and welcome to my course blog for English 470: Our Home and Native Land. The course intends to sort through histories of past and present colonization on indigenous peoples across Canada, placing storytelling as an embodied act of history-making at the forefront. The course is augmented by the Internet, using blogs, twitter, vlogs, skype, and other collaborative technologies to foster online community and education.<\/p>\n

I, as a settler on this land, living, nourishing, and educating myself full-time on the traditional and now-ceded territory of the Tsawwassen First Nation<\/a>, and part-time on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam Nation<\/a>, have a strong commitment to understanding what settler privilege looks like. Further, I\u2019m greatly interested in the ways in which \u2018reconciliation\u2019 operates from Canada, keeping in conversations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission<\/a> that began this September, and the grass-roots organizing delivered by protests and activisms such as Idle No More<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What this means for me in this course is a constant engagement with indigenous academics, particularly those at UBC such as Dr. Glen Coulthard<\/a>, a Yellowknives<\/a> Dene<\/a> scholar, or Dr. Dory Nason<\/a>, an Anishinaabe<\/a> and Chicana<\/a> teacher in the English department here. Centering the voices of indigenous peoples while doing research about histories of ongoging colonization is a top-priority for me, as well as investigating artists, story-tellers, healers, activists, and other community members of indigenous nations such as Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers<\/a>, a Blackfoot<\/a> and S\u00e1mi<\/a>\u00a0(pdf link) filmmaker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I am very excited to be critically engaging with these texts and online spaces in order to help my commitment to a decolonizing sensibility, particularly one in the academic space of UBC by investigating my own reasons for being here as a white settler, and reading the stories of the bodies and peoples who came before me, and continue to exist and resist across these lands.<\/p>\n

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A photo I took during one of the UBC First Nation Student Associations marches for the Idle No More movement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Works Cited<\/p>\n

Coulthard, Glen. “Glen Coulthard : Idle? Know More! Idle No More.” YouTube. Idle Know More, 25 Jan. 2013. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Garci\u0301a, Alma M. Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings. New York: Routledge, 1997. Web.<\/p>\n

Idle No More. “The Movement.” Idle No More, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.Musqueam\u00a0Indian Band.<\/p>\n

Kim, Jennifer. “Read All Over \u2013 Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1 Tailfeathers.” Vancouver Is Awesome. Vancouver Is Awesome, 13 June 2012. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. “Anishinaabemdaa.” Anishinaabe Culture,\u00a0 Anishinaabe History and Ceremonies. Anishinaabemowin Program, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Long Standing Bear Chief. “The Official Web Site of the Blackfoot Nation.” The Official Web Site of the Blackfoot Nation. The Blackfoot Nation, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014<\/p>\n

“Musqueam: A Living Culture.” Musqueam Indian Band, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Nason, Dory. “Dory Nason: Indigenous Feminist, Chicana Badass. Anishinaabekwe.” Twitter, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

“Sami Self-Determination: Land, Resources and Traditional Livelihoods Self-Determination and the Media.” Ed. John B. Henriksen. G\u00e1ldu \u010c\u00e1la-\u2013 Journal for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 2011. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Tailfeathers, Elle-M\u00e1ij\u00e1. “A Red Girl’s Reasoning (Excerpt).” YouTube. YouTube, 26 Mar. 2012. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. “Welcome.” Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Tsawwassen First Nation. “Tsawwassen First Nation: Land Facing The Sea.” Tsawwassen First Nation, n.d. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n

Yellowknives Dene First Nation. “Yellowknives Dene First Nation.” Yellowknives Dene First Nation, 2009. Web. 07 Jan. 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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