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Taylor Flett The following poems were inspired by my search for healing and reconciliation. They are expressions of the frustrating feelings of a young Indigenous woman who has dealt with the after-effects of colonialism, Christianity, and intergenerational trauma. The product of my search did not come easy for any Indigenous peoples in North America, especially…

Nateshia Constant Notes from the interviewer:             Some of the content shared by Robert Lathlin may trigger emotionally negative feelings to the reader.  Robert Lathlin (Bob) is an intergenerational victim of the residential school system and a survivor of Indian Day School, Manitoba.  Bob has experienced trauma, and he would like to share his experience…

Alicia Stensgard (Disclaimer of the playwright: This play portrays traumatic experiences of residential school survivors. All the names, characters, places, events and incidents in this play are either the product of my research on residential schools in Canada or my imagination based on the stories I have heard about the residential schools.  or used in…

Madison Gurniak Indigenous groups were mainly traditionally matrilineal as women in the societies existed as sacred in numerous Indigenous communities. Women were honoured and respected from time immemoriable, and their divine power has been well understood and held up high since then. Several Indigenous stories and myths in the required readings of the course, Indigenous…

Nateshia Constant I feel as if we are still proclaimed as numbers Just like before, our names still translate into a number which resides in our treaty number The government is still counting First Nations as numbers Filing our life into its growing statistical list of nothing but growing numbers First Nations children in Residential…

Jefferson Cook This interview was conducted on March 31, 2021 to fulfill the assignment of the course “Philosophy and Culture” (ANS 3400) by Dr. Jennie Wastesicoot. K.B: You’ve got some questions for me (laughter)? J.C: Yes; ok; so, it’s recording right now; they’ll hears us. Interviewee Kelsey Bighetty, interviewer Jefferson Cook. The three questions I…

Madison Gurniak 1 Louise Erdrich’s “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” and Marilyn Dumont’s “Helen Betty Osborne” and Calls to Action             Indigenous communities in Canada have endured decades of oppression marked by racial discrimination, relative deprivation, socioeconomic marginalization, and victimization, among other forms of social injustices. The oppression subjected to these Indigenous communities has adversely…

Jennie Wastesicoot   Since Canada and Indigenous people began working on reconciliation, a lot of good work has taken place bringing people together but at the same time bringing division and discomfort between Indigenous people as more and more truth is revealed about the things that happened at the residential schools.  This was evident at…

Muses from the North (MFTN) is honoured to have received a grant from The Small Research Grants Fund by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) to release two special issues on the topic of Truth and Reconciliation based on the perspectives of students at the University College of the North (UCN). The majority…