Posts by UCN

By Ramsey Cook The 2019 edition of the Northern Manitoba Annual Trappers’ Festival has come and gone like it does every year. The festival which is held in the town of The Pas, Manitoba, in the core of the winter month of February, is an event of enjoyment for many people across the country, and…

​Storytelling is an important part of the Aboriginal peoples’ practice in oral history. Storytelling is one of the ways used by the Cree peoples to pass down knowledge to future generations. And storytelling is the footing of what Neal McLeod is trying to capture within his book Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times.…

By Jenna Brown Since the time of the women suffrage, the topic of feminism catapulted in global discussions. The term feminism merely is defined as “the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes” (English Oxford Living Dictionaries, n.d.). The goal of this paper is to explore the topic of…

by Elizabeth Tritthart At any given point in life, one can assume that every individual has experienced feelings of loneliness or depression. Loneliness may be defined as an unpleasant response to the absence of camaraderie and isolation, and typically includes anxieties about a lack of connectedness (Burton). Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill,” D. H. Lawrence’s “The…

By John Hendrickson Introduction The 2016 American Presidential Election Campaign revealed major-party candidates who made race and sex one of their main issues in their battle for the Presidency. The election year of 2016 also witnessed the largest gap between voting preferences of college-educated and non-college educated whites since 1980. This gap in voter preference…

Poems by Damilola Joseph Admiration of their Mukluks The Equator girl journeys away from her domainand arrives at a Northern Canadian townso distant from all that she has ever known. It is not until now does she know there aretheir traditional footwears, how and where arethey to be found she ponders over. Stranger she is…

A Play in One ActWritten By: Shelby Tobacco This play is dedicated to our Brother, who was lost to the suicide spirit. William “Rossy” PatchinoseJune 4th, 1998 – August 20th, 2018We miss you. Cast of CharactersDanielle: A woman in her early 20s. The quiet, young and smart woman with one daughter. Her husband cheats on…

by Hope RichardsMy name is Hope Richards, and I am an eighteen-year-old Cree woman from a small reserve called Opaskwayak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba. Growing up, I was always interested in all kinds of art. Drawing Indigenous art is not something I normally do, mostly because there are so many amazing Indigenous artists and…

by Alicia Stensgard AbstractThis research paper defines violence against women as well as intimate partner violence and other terms related. Examples are provided to demonstrate why power struggle dynamics, male privilege and situational factors in unhealthy intimate partnerships result in violence against women. Also, described as a human rights violation and feminist issue, violence against…