Recently the wonderful Elizabeth LaPensée released a 2D sidescroller game called Thunderbird Strike where you “fly from the Tar Sands to the Great Lakes as a thunderbird protecting Turtle Island with searing lightning against the snake that threatens to swallow the lands and waters whole”. The game won Best Digital Media at the imagineNATIVE Film…
Author: âpihtawikosisân
Why so quiet?
The fact is, I haven’t been quiet (when have you ever known me to be?), I’ve just been publishing elsewhere! So I thought I should maybe start just listing some of the pieces from this year? To at least provide some more recent content! There isn’t a tonne, because I made 2016-2017 my “year to…
All that needs to be said about Joseph Boyden
I’ve been pretty vocal on social media about my extreme disappointment with Joseph Boyden and that whole mess, but I certainly haven’t felt like putting together a comprehensive list of how he’s screwed up and what it means. Luckily, someone else was willing to do that work, and I’d like to share that information with…
Indigenization in the Time of Pipelines
Working full time, doing my MA full time, and being massively, unreasonably pregnant, doesn’t leave me with a lot of time to do my regular blogging. However, I recently gave a talk at the University of Winnipeg as part of their Wewewi Indigenous Scholars Speaker Series and I thought I’d share that with you! Behold…
With Friends Like These: Expand the Inquiry, but on whose terms?
On December 7th, 2016, a coalition called Expand the Inquiry launched a petition asking that the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) be widened to include Indigenous men and boys.[1] This coalition includes a number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people, but in the main is being directed by Adam Jones,…