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First Contact, acrylic painting on canvas, 5.5’ x 4.0’ (approx. 168 x 122 cm), 2014. First Contact illuminates the reality that despite the colonial violence inflicted on Indigenous women, we have continuously risen using our culture as an antidote. The Indigenous woman’s hair is interwoven with the...
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BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/bcs.no219.199177 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/199177 |
| Summary: | First Contact, acrylic painting on canvas, 5.5’ x 4.0’ (approx. 168 x 122 cm), 2014. First Contact illuminates the reality that despite the colonial violence inflicted on Indigenous women, we have continuously risen using our culture as an antidote. The Indigenous woman’s hair is interwoven with the killer whale story on the housefront, depicting that our culture is within us and binds us to our sovereignty, land, life community, and family. Colonialism threatened to fracture our connections permanently but failed, as a result of our ancestors’, relatives’, and kin’s deep pursuit to keep our connections strong. ... : BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, No. 219: Autumn 2023 ... |
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