The Land We Are
Subtitle: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Published: Jul 01, 2015
Place of publication: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781894037631
Copyright date: 2015
First sentence: This Chapter Opens with a photograph of Rebecca Belmore's Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother, a work created in the aftermath of what Belmore calls the "Indian summer of 1990, the 78-day standoff between the Mohawks of Kanehsatà:ke and the Canadian Armed Forces.
Description: The Land We Are is a stunning collection of writing and art that interrogates the current era of reconciliation in Canada. Using visual, poetic, and theoretical language, the contributors approach reconciliation as a problematic narrative about Indigenous-settler relations, but also as a site where conversations about a just future must occur. The result of a four-year colllaboration between artists and scholars engaged in resurgence and decolonization, The Land We Are is a moving dialogue that blurs the boundaries between activism, research, and the arts
Notes: Source title: The Land We Are: Artists and Writers Unsettle the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada (Indigenous Collection)
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: VII; label: Introduction
title: Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill and Sophie McCall
pagenum: 1; label: Part One: Public Memory and the Neoliberal City; label: 1. Public Art in Vancouver and the Civic Infrastructure of Redress
title: Dylan Robinson and Karen Zaiontz
pagenum: 22; label: 2. unreconciling public art
title: The New BC Indian Art and Welfare Society Collective
pagenum: 52; label: Part Two: "Please check against delivery": The Apology Unlocked; label: 3. "Please check against delivery"
title: Jordan Abel
pagenum: 67; label: 4. Apology Dice: Collaboration in Progress
title: David Garneau and Clement Yeh
pagenum: 72; label: 5. From Whereas
title: Layli Long Soldier
pagenum: 81; label: Part Three: Collaboration, Creative Practice, and Labour; label: 6. Walking with Our Sister in Sisters in Sault Ste. Marie: The Commemoration of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Indian Residential School Students
title: Jonathan Dewar
pagenum: 87; label: 7. Reflections on Unsettling Narratives of Denial
title: Leah Decter and Jamie Isaac
pagenum: 96; label: 8. Call and Response
title: Leah Decter and Ayumi Goto
pagenum: 130; label: Part Four: Insurgent Pedagogies, Affective Performances, Unbounded Creations; label: 9. Writing Touch Me
title: Skeena Reece and Sandra Semchuk
pagenum: 151; label: 10. Hair
title: Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin
pagenum: 174; label: 11. Adrian Stimson
title: Interview with Jonathan Dewar
pagenum: 185; label: 12. Always Beginning: Imagining Reconciliation Beyond Inclusion and Loss
title: Allison Hargreaves and David Jefferess
pagenum: 200; label: Contributors
pagenum: 211; label: Works Cited
pagenum: 219; label: Note on the Proceeds of The Land We Are
pagenum: 226