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I knew that when they stood up to hobble home, he would lead a few feet ahead, and she would follow. They grew up in the bush and still walked the same way, as if the wide road was nothing more than a narrow path through the muskeg and spruce.
Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
Favourite Books
The Book Thief
Indian Horse
Three Day Road
Beartown
Anything by Tamora Pierce
Turtles All the Way Down
The Good Earth
Memoirs of a Geisha
Through Black Spruce
Books on the list for my Native American literature course this fall— I am most excited to read Mongrels, by Stephen Graham Jones, which I started this weekend. I am also hoping that The Round House gives me a new perspective on Erdrich.
Things I Would Want From a Live-Action ‘Three Day Road’ Movie (or Series) if Joseph Boyden Hadn’t Gone and Made Himself So Controversial:
Indigenous representation in a blockbuster film!
The forest landscape in Ontario.
NISKA. She’s generally great.
It would get people interested in Francis Pegahmagabow because he kinda inspired Xavier and Elijah being sharpshooters and is generally really interesting.
Indigenous representation in a blockbuster film!
A really cool soundtrack with... like... lots of drums and maybe covers of songs by Lord Huron with traditional instruments.
A l l t h e a n g s t
Actually the whole windigo bit would be really spooky.
The boys and Niska talking in Cree.
Indigenous representation in a blockbuster film!
Crazy sharpshooting stunts.
I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.
The Orenda by Joseph Boyden
To be First Nations, you must first belong to a nation.
In anticipation of a fall book tour for his new novel, Seven Matches, Joseph Boyden is back in the pages of Maclean’s magazine with an article restating his claim of First Nations ancestry, and anchoring that in the results of a DNA test.
Boyden’s ancestry first came into question late last year when I, along with APTN and a number of other Indigenous activists, questioned Boyden’s right to speak on our behalf. We looked at his shifting claims of ancestry — covered here on CANADALAND — and his misuse of basic First Nations concepts like being “two-spirit,” and we presented the questions to the public for them to decide.
Broadly speaking — though with many notable exceptions — Indigenous people on social media took the position that he was not Indigenous. And broadly speaking, non-Natives, especially those in the media, claimed that he was, and that we had no right as Indigenous people to determine who belonged to our communities.
Continue Reading.
The concept of Native as its own identity (and not as a placeholder word for a specific tribal or nation identity), is a product of colonialism and the Indian Act. In the words of anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanon, "it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence." There are Salish people, Haida, Cree, Ojibway, Métis, and Mi'kmaq among many others, all three dimensional individuals you can walk up to on the street, and not one which identifies with some culture called "Native." Still, we are told that a thing called the Native race exists, that Boyden is a member of it, that his disconnect from any community doesn't matter, and lastly that we have no say in this.
Robert Jago, The Boyden Controversy Is Not about Bloodline (2017) dans The Walrus
