{"id":54,"date":"2016-10-07T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T05:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-10-21T22:40:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:40:45","slug":"paper-thin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/2016\/10\/07\/paper-thin\/","title":{"rendered":"paper thin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cif Europeans were not from the land of the dead, or the sky, alternative explanations which were consistent with indigenous cosmologies quickly developed\u201d (\u201cfirst contact\u201d 43). robinson gives us one of those alternative explanations in his stories about how coyote\u2019s twin brother stole the \u201cwritten document\u201d and when he denied stealing the paper, he was \u201cbanished to a distant land across a large body of water\u201d (9). we are going to return to this story, but for now \u2013 what is your first response to this story? in context with our course theme of investigating intersections where story and literature meet, what do you make of this stolen piece of paper?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

– assignment given by erika paterson.<\/a><\/p>\n

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ProfessorArthur Edward Waite. The High Priestess. The Rider-Waite Tarot Deck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

my first consideration is to wonder what the written piece of paper means or symbolizes. is it symbolic of the white people stealing the skill of being able to write and keeping it to themselves? does this mean the document was valuable, or evil, or both, like how the forbidden fruit adam and eve eat in the garden gives them the \u201cskill\u201d to judge between evil and good but the action is considered evil overall because god hates them for it and it creates a rift between them.<\/p>\n

did the white people choose the path of the written story (literature) leaving the first people the path of the oral story? the paper document represents permanence and law for the white people. but what does it represent for the first people of canada? it more than likely represents greed and trickery and inaccessibility after their first experiences<\/a> with important community written documents written on paper.<\/p>\n

if this was in fact the way written works were viewed, perhaps they were not perceived as something that could contain the power and vibrancy of stories, the way in which the oral traditions were perceived. perhaps they were perceived as something more akin to insanity or greed. something very anti-social and damaging. i don’t think that the first people would have found many, if any, positive examples of white people using paper documents in the first contact years.<\/p>\n

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works cited<\/p>\n

\u201cIndian Land\u201c First Nations – Land Rights and Environmentalism in British Columbia<\/em>. www.firstnations.de\/indian_land.ht. Accessed 7 Oct. 2016.<\/p>\n

Paterson, Erika. \u201cLesson 2:2\u201d. ENGL 4710 Canadian Literary Genres: Canadian Studies<\/em>. University of British Columbia. Nov. 2013. blogs.ubc.ca\/courseblogsis_ubc_engl_470a_99c_2014wc_44216-sis_ubc_engl_470a_99c_2014wc_44216_2517104_1\/unit-2\/lesson-2-2\/ Accessed 7 Oct. 2016.<\/p>\n

Robinson, Harry. Living by Stories: a Journey of Landscape and Memory<\/i>. Compiled and edited by Wendy Wickwire. Vancouver: Talon Books 2005. Print. (1-30)<\/span><\/code><\/p>\n

Waite, Arthur Edward. \u201cThe High Priestess\u201c. Trusted Tarot<\/em>. 2010. www.trustedtarot.com\/cards\/the-high-priestess\/. Accessed 7 Oct. 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cif Europeans were not from the land of the dead, or the sky, alternative explanations which were consistent with indigenous cosmologies quickly developed\u201d (\u201cfirst contact\u201d 43). robinson gives us one of those alternative explanations in his stories about how coyote\u2019s twin brother stole the \u201cwritten document\u201d and when he denied stealing the paper, he was … Continue reading paper thin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1763756,112,638],"tags":[1763756,1018,638],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canlit","category-first-nations","category-storytelling","tag-canlit","tag-firstnations","tag-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missingcanada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}