Today we discussed Buffy Sainte-Marie's address regarding the public/media questioning of her Indigeneity. We talked about what the implications of her identity being questioned might be, and which parts, if any, were the place of non-Indigenous folks to question. Brandi Morin posted about the impacts, as did Sainte-Marie's niece. We then discussed what it might mean for Indigenous Peoples to engage in the creation of media/art for an Indigenous audience, as opposed to doing so for general audiences - specifically using Christopher Cote's (Osage language consultant for Killers of the Flower Moon) take on what it means to him.
Students then worked in groups, then as a class, to discuss decolonization and indigenization as they relate to this country, its colonial systems, this province, and this course. Students used this conversation to add to their notes from last class.
We then discussed, briefly, ways in which the Kim Senklip Harvey is working to decolonize, including:
- Creating ceremony, rather than performance
- Writing with values, instead of themes
- Multiplicity of language, time, character etc...
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