Stories

A Coyote Columbus Story

Christopher Columbus took Indigenous People because they thought he had authority over them

A Seat in the Garden

Joe and Red learn nothing about Indigenous People and make assumptions about Indigenous culture.

The RCMP was made because of an attack on Indigenous People and to enforce Canadian authority on settlers on the land

The RCMP Aactually physically forced and harmed Indigenous peoples to move into their reserves and to do certain things

Both Joe's make an assumption that Indigenous people wear feathers in their hair and wear clothing that movies portrayed Indigenous people as.

Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre^

Deer Island Massacre is a recurring theme to the Coyote Columbus Story because Indigenous people were dehumanized

Magpies

Totem

“Totem” is about the land of the first nations, yet they are compelled to live in reserves, and the government and colonized people view them as nothing more than a burden by virtue of their sheer existence.

Borders

In borders the mother identified as Blackfoot but the guard insisted if they were from the American or Canadian side.

Poems

Footprints in the Snow

Stone Mother

The motivation for the Land Back movement could be a result to the treatment and how they're identity and nationhood was neglected, for example in the story borders the guard insists on the mother to identify as Canadian or American to cross the border, but she being Blackfoot did not identify as either, she belives Blackfoot is not Canadian or American.

Indian Singing in 20th Century America

Real Life Examples

Thomas King based Border on a real life experience that he went through at the Border between Canada and the US.

Christopher Columbus in our history books "found" Canada.

Land Back Movemnet, 94 Calls to action

Residential Schools

Indigenous Discrimination shown through short stories, poems and real life examples