Q 5.“If Europeans were not from the land of the dead, or the sky, alternative explanations which were consistent with indigenous cosmologies quickly developed” (“First Contact” 43). Robinson gives us one of those alternative explanations in his stories about how Coyote’s twin brother stole the “written document” and when he denied stealing the paper, he …
Jo’s Honey Badger Have you ever considered how Evil came to be? Where did Evil come from? Did someone create Evil? I heard a story about this once, when I was living abroad. I was sharing an apartment in Italy with two other American girls. We had a night off and after a few bottles …
Welcome! This blog is attached to Erika Paterson’s ENGL 470 class at UBC. In this course, we will be discussing the intersections and departures of Canadian literature with particular regards to the intersections of European(/colonial) and Indigenous story telling. The way we will discuss story telling is not simply by assessing the act of story …