Posts by UCN

by Peggy Lathlin  Whether we realize it or not, as Indigenous students, we are often faced with one crisis after another as we attempt to better ourselves through higher learning. For instance, our overall health can sometimes put a damper on our study at university because we may be too sick to get anything done…

by Collette McKay Tansii, I am a mother to two beautiful children; a girl whose spirit name is kiwètin iskwèw (North Wind Girl), and a boy whose spirit name is Piponàskos (Young Snow Bull). Together with their father and myself, we reside in Opaskwayak Cree Nationii. I have been a community member of O.C.N. &…

by Alicia Stensgard Interviewee: William DumasInterviewer: Alicia StensgardDate of Interview: September 16th, 2019Location of Interview: Thompson, MBList of Acronyms: WD= William Dumas, IN= Interviewer Translator/Spell-Checker: Ron Cook and Maggie Moodie IN: My name is Alicia Stensgard. Today I will be interviewing Knowledge Keeper William Dumas from South Indian Lake. If you’d like to introduce yourself…

We at Muses from the North (MFTN) are very pleased to present to the reading public the 5th installment of our student-oriented journal. This 5th issue of MFTN is a special one. In fact, it is the first of two special issues which will showcase articles submitted only by UCN students living on some of…

​About the Artist: Ellora Reddy studied at UCN for her first two years and now she is studying at the University of Manitoba towards her bachelor degree in Environmental Science. Her illustration for the story, “I want to go to school,” was published in the second issue of Muses from the North. In the 2018…

Ghostly Interpretations in Maxine Hong Kingston’s Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts and Toni Morrison’s Beloved By Taylor Flett In most novels of Gothic literature, the element of the supernatural often appears in the forms of ghostly apparitions, haunted spaces of homes or buildings, monstrous creatures or unexplained manifestations that bring terror in…

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…