Web of Stories: Conversations with Cherie Dimaline
Theses
Author/Creator
Lisa Haslett
Description
English Literature Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2010.
Short story involves the Trickster traveling to Mount Pleasant, Michigan to speak to the former mascot about the university's persistence in using "Chippewa" as their mascot's name.
Chapter from Team Spirits: The Native American Mascot Controversy edited by C. Richard King and Charles Freuhling Springwood; foreword by Vine Deloria Jr.
Outlines three stories: an agreement with Brokenhead Ojibway Nation's chief and Manitoba's minister of conservation to protect petroform sites, an outcry for a public inquiry into the murders of convicted killer Robert Pickton and a request for a ban on the bulldozing of important Native sites without the consent of Ontario First Nations people.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.9.