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Searching for allusions in Green Grass Running Water is an eventful task. Drawing on historical, literary, mythical, or personal knowledge to better understand and appreciate King’s characters and stories is well worth the time that it takes to do so. … Continue reading →

  Thomas King wants us to read aloud so as to “maintain the dialogic fluidity of oral storytelling performance in written text” (Chester). By writing a novel that leads the reader to benefit from reading passages and sections aloud, King … Continue reading →

The Indian Act of 1876 was developed by colonial powers to consolidate all existing legislation that covered First Nations people and their relationship to Canada. The goal of this state governing activity was to assimilate and “civilize” First Nations people … Continue reading →

  In his article about the political geography of mapping and the persistence of colonial assumptions about cartography in Canada, Matthew Sparke narrows in on the legal case involving the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en First Nations and their case against the BC … Continue reading →

Thomas King states that creation stories “contain relationships that help to define the nature of the universe and how cultures understand the world in which they exist” (King, 10). He presents us with two such stories, one Native and one … Continue reading →

below is a list of reoccurring themes and words that I found as I read through our Home stories: Peace, cooperation, understanding, warmth, acceptance, comfort, family, loss, “my own story”, longing, love, impermanence, and love. I really enjoyed reading all … Continue reading →

In order to make a house a home I first had to find out what makes a home. I have heard that home hides in people, in places and in things both expected and unexpected. It hides in the air … Continue reading →

Evil entered this world through a song. It was the jazz cats doing. Not the rockers or the folkies, or the classical cats, or the ones with the blues. It was the jazz cats. It happened a long time ago, … Continue reading →

At the beginning of this lesson I pointed to the idea that technological advances in communication tools have been part of the impetus to rethink the divisive and hierarchical categorizing of literature and orality, and suggested that this is happening … Continue reading →