Text in the City: "abOriginal Genres"
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Garry Thomas Morse
Description
Looks at First Nations representation in literature and the arts.
Reports results of interviews conducted with 61 individuals who attended boarding schools or were in the urban boarding home program from the late 1940s through the early 1980s, as well as one individual whose parents were boarding school graduates.
Writer, activist and former lawyer discusses his book, Peace and Good Order, the effects of incarceration on Indigenous communities, and the way that jailhouse culture fills the cultural void left by residential schools. Duration: 28:08