Assignment 2.4: Reading Harry Robinson

https://blogs.ubc.ca/georgiamasaki/2020/02/07/assignment-2-4-reading-harry-robinson/

In this blog post, I share my first responses to reading Harry Robinson’s story of Coyote’s banished twin brother, as shared in Wendy Wickwire’s introduction to Harry Robinson: Living by Stories. 

Assignment 1.5: The Story of How Evil Came to the World

https://blogs.ubc.ca/georgiamasaki/2020/01/21/assignment-1-5-the-story-of-how-evil-came-into-the-world/

My story carries the key message that stories can be dangerous things and that once a story is told it becomes loose in the world. “So, be careful of the words you dare to whisper. And be wary of the whispers that tempt you to listen.”

Assignment 1.3: A Summary of Edward Chamberlin’s Final Chapter

https://blogs.ubc.ca/georgiamasaki/2020/01/17/assignment-1-2/

Three essential points stand out to me in the final chapter of If This is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories?: Chamberlin emphasizes the importance of building understanding between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada through the power of stories, calls attention to the paradoxical nature of stories and the contradictions they weave, and asserts his belief that we should (and we can!) return “underlying title” to aboriginal title. Finally, Chamberlin brings these ideas together to assert an answer to his titular question, resolving that our stories lie on “on common ground.”

Picture Credits:

Allouche, Jeremy. “Calm Body of Water Near Forest.” Unsplash, 13 Jan. 2018, https://unsplash.com/@jerroams.