| This course explores key thematic and formal developments in the Indigenous literatures of Turtle Island from 1970 to the present, with a focus on texts that probe the impact of key political and cultural events on Indigenous peoples and their communities on both sides of the Canada-US border including the Oka Crisis, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Idle No More, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Inquiry, the founding of the American Indian Movement, the Occupation of Wounded Knee, the first Two-Spirit Gathering in Minneapolis, the Native American Apology Resolution, and the Dakota Pipeline Access protests. Authors may include Louise Halfe (Cree), Leslie Marmon Silko (Laguna Pueblo), Armand Garnet Ruffo (Ojibwe Anishnaabe), Gregory Scofield (Métis), Marie Clements (Métis), Diane Glancy (Cherokee), Chrystos (Menominee), Eden Robinson (Haisla/Heiltsuk), Katherena Vermette (Métis), Tanya Tagaq (Inuit), Harold Cardinal (Cree), Gerald Vizenor (White Earth Ojibwe), James Welch (Blackfeet Gros-Ventre), Simon Ortiz (Acoma Pueblo), Thomas King (Cherokee), Liz Howard (Ojibwe Anishnaabe), Jordan Abel (Nisga'a), Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/Arapaho), and Billy-Ray Belcourt (Cree). |
