Muses From The North
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…
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…