Making Meaning in Totemland: Investigating a Vancouver Commission
Theses
Author/Creator
Kimberly Jean Phillips
Description
Art History Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2000.
Colouring book with text in Ojibwe and English.
Historical note:
Michel Dumais, prominent South Branch Metis. Dumais was one of the delegates sent to retrieve Riel from Montana in 1884 along with Gabriel Dumont and James Isbister. He was farm instructor at the One Arrow Cree Reserve until 1885. After fighting in the Resistance he fled to Montana alongside Gabriel Dumont.Author uses her own experiences as non-Indigenous woman of color to explore the challenges in becoming an ally with Indigenous communities fight in their fight for decolonization.