Kateri akiwenzie-damm
Born: 1965 Toronto, Ottawa (Birth Date unknown)
Canadian writer, editor, producer, and activist
Author works
Editor Anthologies
Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing. (Editor) with Josie Douglas, 2000
Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica, 2003
Speaking True: A Kegedonce Press Anthology, 2006
The Stone Collection, 2015
Poetry
My Heart is a Stray Bullet, 1993, 2002
bloodriver woman, 1998
Spoken Work standing ground, poetry CD, 2004
Plays
A Constellation of Bones, 2007
Documentary Feature
Featured in the documentary, Words From the Edge, 2007
Awards
Recipient, Literary Arts Development Writers Grant from the Canada Council, 1996
Recipient, Ontario Arts Council, Writers ' Reserve Grant for a poetry
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As a scholar, she held the Lucille Herbert Memorial Scholarship and was a member of the Dean 's Honour Roll at York University.
In 1993, Kateri founded Kegedonce Press to give voice to Indigenous culture and, in the same year, she published a book of poetry, My Heart is a Stray Bullet with Kegodonce Press. Her literary activities soon expanded to editing and publishing the work of other writers in anthologies. The first, Skins: Contemporary Indigenous Writing, she edited and jointly published with Kegedonce Press and Jukurrpa Books. Skins collected the work of writers from Canada, the United States, Australia, and Aotearoa - New Zealand. The second, Without Reservation: Indigenous Erotica. Kegedonce Press, was about Native sexuality and erotica through the writing and history of various tribes. Her prose work, Stone Collection, published in 2015 was an interconnected narrative of short stories exploring emotions such as humor, love, and anger and topics such as family.
In addition to her literary, publishing, and performance work, she has been an activist as a Board Member and Interim Vice President of the Aboriginal Youth Council of Canada and a member of the Joint National Committee on Aboriginal AIDS Education. Other activism work has been with the Native Advisory Council of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers Workshop. Her work has included being a Trustee of
Are the hunting, fishing, and gathering rights guaranteed to the Ojibwe in the 1837 treaty still valid and enforceable? Did the Minnesota act ethically when it asserted the Ojibwe hunting, fishing and gathering rights were no longer valid?
Barker, J. (2008). Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: Native Women's Activism against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada. American Quarterly, 60(2), 8. Retrieved fro m http://search.Proquest.com.Ez proxy.library.yorku.ca/docview/61688929?Acc ountid=15182.
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“In what ways did Indigenous peoples resist the non-Indigenous settlement of Australia in the frontier period and how did non-Indigenous peoples retaliate? In your answer, discuss and analyse the initial and ongoing impact on Indigenous communities.”
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Ayana Mathis graduated from Iowa Writers' Workshop and received the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. What Ayana Mathis didn’t know is that her first novel, The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, would shoot her immediately into success. Her book received remarkable awards such as a New York Times Bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2013 award, as well as having been recommended by Oprah Winfrey and included for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. As visiting faculty at the Iowa Writer's Workshop, Ayana would taught fiction writing in Spring 2013, and is currently writing and teaching at The Writer's Foundry MFA Program at St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn, New York. (Mathis).
Terry Tempest Williams and Wangari Maathai are both very powerful women who devoted their lives to improving the world one step at a time. Williams, the author of Refuge, is a naturalist, a feminist, and a writer who brings such power into everything she touches. Her passion for change has brought so much goodness into the world. She has beat many obstacles, including her own struggle with herself, which to her is the same fight we have with nature, and finally accepting the outcome; whatever that may be unnatural, or natural, is the secret to life. While we read about what Terry Tempest Williams writes about her mother’s difficulties while struggling with cancer, we also have Wangari Maathai speaking about all the violence she faces in Kenya.
In Hunt’s estimation, which she precludes with her own experience and knowledge taken from research within her own community—Vancouver’s downtown Eastside—there has been a significant uptick of missing Indigenous women since at least the early 1990s, “mainly women who were marked as ‘outsider’ by a society that shuns sex workers, substance users, the poor, and the homeless, among many others” (96). In the case of Pamela George, this was no different.
Culture, as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary is stated as “The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief and behavior that dpends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. The customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious or social group. The set shared attitudes, values, goals and practices that characterizes an institution or organization. The set of values, conventions or social practices associated with a particular field, activity or societal characteristic.” Of these four definitions, I shall be focusing on the second one to discuss what makes up the culture of American Indians.The culture of the various tribes that made up the Native Americans is one of close knit families, highlyspiritual peoples and living together as one with the land they lived on. They believed in spirits, worshiping and honoring them. Some settled into single locations while others were nomadic, but all had a focus on working with the land around them. Because there are so many varying tribes that make up Native
Why is it fundamental for a teacher to recognise Indigenous literacies and Aboriginal English in your classroom?
In understanding the importance of cultural continuance is it necessary to understand its connection and direct relationship to Canada’s long history of colonialization. Although western art places Indigenous history within in a complete pre-contact lens, Indigenous art and histories are connected and shaped by both pre-contact and post-contact worldviews which have influence and shaped various works and understandings. Yet, one significant separation between settler and Aboriginal world views that is important to notes in the role of cultural continuation is the difference to the linear event based view of history that western society is predicated on. As opposed to many Indigenous nations view of history as always within motion, not static
She argues that women face many institutional and societal barriers. In this regard, I will give examples of the institutional and structural barriers such as “The Indian Act” which have significantly affected Indigenous women in Canada in many ways including social, economic and political. While comparing feminists and Indigenous feminists, I think that Native women are different in several ways including social, cultural, historical, political and economic; therefore, Indigenous feminism is a way of practicing the values that they have been taught and inherited from their
Speeches are an iconic and widely used means of expression for our political leaders, particularly when discussing issues of importance such as Indigenous Australia. Paul Keating’s ‘Redfern Speech’ and Kevin Rudd’s ‘Apology to Australia’s Indigenous Peoples’ are the two political speeches which I will be analysing in this paper.
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