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Jefferson Cook This interview was conducted on March 31, 2021 to fulfill the assignment of the course “Philosophy and Culture” (ANS 3400) by Dr. Jennie Wastesicoot. K.B: You’ve got some questions for me (laughter)? J.C: Yes; ok; so, it’s recording right now; they’ll hears us. Interviewee Kelsey Bighetty, interviewer Jefferson Cook. The three questions I…

Madison Gurniak 1 Louise Erdrich’s “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” and Marilyn Dumont’s “Helen Betty Osborne” and Calls to Action             Indigenous communities in Canada have endured decades of oppression marked by racial discrimination, relative deprivation, socioeconomic marginalization, and victimization, among other forms of social injustices. The oppression subjected to these Indigenous communities has adversely…

Jennie Wastesicoot   Since Canada and Indigenous people began working on reconciliation, a lot of good work has taken place bringing people together but at the same time bringing division and discomfort between Indigenous people as more and more truth is revealed about the things that happened at the residential schools.  This was evident at…

Muses from the North (MFTN) is honoured to have received a grant from The Small Research Grants Fund by the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) to release two special issues on the topic of Truth and Reconciliation based on the perspectives of students at the University College of the North (UCN). The majority…