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The Guardian: Native children didn’t ‘lose’ their lives at residential schools. Their lives were stolen
Originally posted on The Guardian. We’d all heard the stories, long before they started to receive this summer’s 24/7 coverage by every news station in Canada. Long before ground-penetrating radars confirmed the presence of unmarked graves, we knew that our missing family members did not simply “disappear” nor attempt and fail to run away from residential…
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Reflections on Quill Christie-Peters’ “spilling out, spilling over”
Reflections on Quill Christie-Peters‘ spilling out, spilling over (2021)Displayed at the University of Saskatchewan College Art Galleries January 14 – April 22, 2022 At first glance, the style of Quill Christie-Peters’ paintings appears steeped in the traditions of much Indigenous art that came before, as well as those pieces that are still held up as…
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CBC Music #CanadaListens 2022: Crown Lands n Me
I’m excited to be representing the gorgeous, decolonial rock band Crown Lands for CBC Music’s 2022 edition of CBC Music’s Canada Listens. I get to chat with four other brilliant panellists about why Crown Lands are truly great and why rock and roll still matters. (In other words, it’s my dream job.) A mystical trip…
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The Secret of Decolonial Love
Tansi friends! I wrote an essay on an Indigenous power couple, Renee and Joel, & their gorgeous decolonial love story. It was so much fun to interview & write about Renee (Rama) and Joel (Dakota/Ojibwe), who met at a moccasin-making workshop 10 years ago and have been together ever since. As the legend goes, Joel…
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The Guardian: Native children didn’t ‘lose’ their lives at residential schools. Their lives were stolen | Erica Violet Lee
I wrote an essay for The Guardian on Native resistance, colonialism’s theft of childhood joy, and reckoning with the unearthing of graves at canada’s residential schooling institutions. “Some of the stories we are told about residential schooling prisons involve Native children digging graves for other children. Rarely did our ancestors receive proper burials or grave…
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#CancelCanadaDay: Livestream this afternoon with The Red Nation
At 3pm PT / 4pm SK & MT / 6pm ET today, I’ll be talking about #CancelCanadaDay and canadian colonialism with Nick Estes and The Red Nation. Join us on YouTube or Facebook. Stay cool out there on the frontlines.
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Refinery 29 Feature: What Indigenous Beauty Means to Me
“I’m Plains Cree, or Nêhiyaw, and I started doing research and learning about the traditional face paint that warriors would have worn and the beautification traditions of my people and I thought, this is my war paint.”