Characters
Mashkawaji's marrow.
Who is Sabe?
An image that covers the full page in a graphic novel.
What is a full page bleed?
The place where Asin bird watches.
Where is Tommy Thompson Park?
Empty Spaces, then, is not so much about re-presenting James Fenimore Cooper's vision of land as terra nullius / but instead it is about overwriting terra nullius. / It is about imagining and reconstituting my relationship with the land. Much like many of my other projects, Empty Spaces is not so much about reinscribing Indigenous absence / as it is about rearticulating Indigenous presence.
Jordan Abel's NISHGA
A "little bit weird" and "spilling" start to build an anthill under her skin, grain by grain, bit by bit.
"The Feeling"
The [fill in the blank] were the ultimate radicals and no one knew it. Sure, they had been dispossessed, displaced and their habitat gentrified like everyone else, but they were not taking it. No way. They moved the f** back in. Committed. Built lodges, spoke their language, did their ceremonies and took care of each other. [2 answers]
Who are esibanag (racoons) or esiban (singular)?
A style of visual design from Indigenous Nations in the Pacific Northwest Coast.
What is formline?
The name of the residential school where Ed was born.
What is St Joseph's Mission?
"You cannot exist without having that spot of land. This is the principle. God cannot create a tribe without locating it. We are not birds."
Who is Louis Riel?
I have come to see Coyote as creator and destroyer, messiah and Antichrist, forefather and deadbeat dad. He is the embodiment of forces greater than ourselves and drive and ride the metamorphoses of the world: of climate, geology, environment, technology, and culture. Coyote was change incarnate. And as his descendants, we carry that same power of transformation.
Noisecat
Name of Echo's first friend in the past.
Who is Marie?
The meaning of "biidaaban" (the overall meaning plus the meanings of each syllable)
What is the first light just before dawn?
Bii: what will be.
daa: now.
ban: what was.
The place where Jordan Abel met his Dad for the first time in his twenties.
Where are the front steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery?
This shift can feel like a kind of heresy if the interior is thought of as apolitical or inexpressive, which it is not: one's inner life is raucous and full of expression... Indeed the interior could be understood as the source of human action - that anything we do is shaped by the range of desires and capacities of our inner life.
Kevin Quashie's The Sovereignty of Quiet.
We can't let us other ourselves
We were are them
They are our best us
"They Chose Them"
Name of anthropologist in The Place of Scraps.
Who is Marius Barbeau?
The “phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole” in graphic novels.
What is "closure" in graphic novels?
The 2 lakes that start and end the Red River.
1. What is Lake Traverse? 2. What is Lake Winnipeg?
If you would just read more post colonial theory, you'd understand that your anger is part of the binary of colonialism and therefore colonial and if you just take some of the things from settlers and some of the things from your ancestors, you'll find you can weave them into a really nice tapestry, which will make the colonizers feel ambivalent and then you've altered the power structure.
Leanne Betasamoske Simpson, "smallpox, anyone," Islands of Decolonial Love.
In this make-believe land called America, white actors can represent any and all people, while Native actors aren't even given the chance to represent themselves. And even thought white people were playing Indians onstage, it was impossible for white audiences to iamgine actual historical white people becoming Natives--to imagine, for example, the first Anglo-Saxon settlers assimilating into Algonquian society.
Name of trickster in Tracey Lindberg's The Cree Word for Love.
Who is Elder Brother or Elder Sister: Kahkisiw: s/he is whole; complete.
kina gchi nishaabe-ogaming (2 answers)
a) What is the meaning of "the place where we all live and work together" in Anishinaabemowin? b) What is the definition of "nationhood" or "sovereignty" in Anishinaabemowin?
The four historical events that shape A Girl Called Echo, with approximate dates.
What is the Pemmican Wars (1806-1821)? What is the Red River Resistance (1870)? What is the Northwest Resistance (1885)? What is the Road Allowance Era (1880s and onwards)?
she is / the healing / not the hurt / she is / the knowing / not the unknown
Katherena Vermette's "ziibiwan (like a river)" in river woman
Unable to contain their excitement, Kay creaked and sizzled and cracked wide open with joy when they were placed in the fire. When the two-leggeds placed Kay and their stone relatives in the fireand poured water on them, the release was immediate and exalting. Steam filled the lodge, and Kay found joy when they felt their heat and wetness enter the two leggeds.
"The Little People are Queer"