I get asked to talk about Indigenous issues a lot, and since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its final report, the whole concept of “reconciliation” has become a hot ticket notion. Invariably during the Q&A sessions, people ask, “what can I do?” I’m a big fan of having at Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more