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Indigenous History Month 2021

    Indigenous Futurism

    by Meredith Bratland July 7, 2021
    written by Meredith Bratland

    Grace Dillon coined the term, Indigenous Futurism, a nod to Afrofuturism, to describe work that is centred around Indigenous people and features their ancient knowledge in a futuristic setting.

    “All forms of Indigenous futurisms are narratives of biskaabiiyang, an Anishinaabemowin word connoting the process of ‘returning to ourselves,’ which involves discovering how personally one is affected by colonization, discarding the emotional and psychological baggage carried from its impact, and recovering ancestral traditions in order to adapt in our post-Native Apocalypse world.”

    -Grace Dillon, Walking the Clouds: an anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction

    Why I’m eager to jump into reading Indigenous Futurism is that it looks at the future and imagines a way forward from colonialism. “Indigenous people have already survived an apocalypse”, says Grace Dillon and this is a statement I find very poignant.

    We all will learn tremendously by listening to Indigenous perspectives and knowledge as we plan for the future. Let’s aim to think generations ahead as Indigenous cultures have been doing all along. Indigenous Futurism can help us focus on possibility, justice, joy, and resilience.

    Some of UAlberta’s own scholars are big thinkers in the scene of Indigenous Futurism.

    Chelsea Vowel – ERA paper and her podcast Metis in Space

    • Here is Vowel’s Master of Arts thesis paper – Where No Michif Has Gone Before: The Form and Functions of Metis Futurisms (in ERA, the university’s online repository)
    • She and Molly Swain (who is also part of the Faculty of Native Studies) host a fab podcast called Metis in Space. http://www.metisinspace.com/

    Kim TallBear has been inspiring us at UAlberta and beyond with her wisdom, research, and forward-thinking. She’s teaching a class that I think can be considered Indigenous Futurism:

    • Indigenous Peoples and Technoscience 
      • Taught with professor, Jessica Kolopenuk

    For more Grace Dillon, there are a few audio interviews to enjoy:

    • Indigenous Futurisms: Changing the Narrative in Science Fiction and Fact – Spark on CBC
    • From growing medicine to space rockets: What is Indigenous futurism? – Unreserved on CBC

    And to finish off, the books on my nightstand:

    • Cherie Dimaline
      • The Marrow Thieves
      • Empire of Wild
    • Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhouse
    • Trickster Trilogy by Eden Robinson
      • Son of a Trickster (#1)
      • Trickster Drift (#2)
      • Return of the Trickster (#3)

    There is SO MUCH out there and this is just a sampling based on my own interests and literary taste. Discover where you fit in this great literary canon of knowledge and take it with you, along with hope and positive change.

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  • Indigenous History Month | Challenges in Indigenous Archiving

    by Guest Author June 22, 2021
    by Guest Author June 22, 2021

    This guest post was written by Christian Isbister who worked with our team at the University of Alberta Archives to help begin the process of decolonizing their collection. Tanisi, hello! My name is Christian Isbister, I’m a Métis librarian/archivist, and I most recently completed a contract with the University of Alberta Archives where I made some early steps towards decolonizing their collection. Here I’ll talk about some of the inherent difficulties in…

  • Indigenous History Month | Indigenous Research in ERA & Aviary

    by Sonya Leung June 15, 2021
    by Sonya Leung June 15, 2021

    As Indigenous History Month continues, now is a great time to explore the over 500 individual items on Indigenous research in The University of Alberta’s Educational and Research Archive (ERA) and The University of Alberta media streaming repository, Aviary. The Situated Knowledges, Indigenous Peoples and Place (SKIPP) Virtual Colloquium took place in the Summer of 2020. SKIPP showcased University of Alberta scholars’ journeys into or with Indigenous-engaged research and scholarship. Streaming videos…

  • Indigenous History Month | NFB Campus’ Indigenous Collection

    by Erin Sanderman June 8, 2021
    by Erin Sanderman June 8, 2021

    Last June, I took readers on a brief overview of some of the streaming audiovisual resources that feature media content concentrated on Indigenous peoples of North America and beyond. Now I would like to take everyone on a deeper dive into one of the resources featured in that original post: NFB Campus. Those of us who spent our formative years in Canada are probably familiar with National Film Board of Canada (NFB)…

  • Indigenous History Month – Graphic Novels

    by Elisabet Ingibergsson June 1, 2021
    by Elisabet Ingibergsson June 1, 2021

    Celebrate Indigenous History Month with us as we explore the increasingly popular genre of the graphic novel! Indigenous artists and writers have opened up the world of tribal tales, traditions and customs to a new generation of readers. Graphic novels share all the key characteristics of traditional novels but their images do the vast majority of the storytelling. Combining text and art, these books have the power to engage and through that,…

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