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Relevant, creative and critical, this anthology encourages scholarship that is mindful of the critic’s responsibility to communities, and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts. The contribution of Troubling Tricksters is twofold: to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna, and to propose new approaches to trickster studies, approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists’ call for cultural and historical specificity.
For full details: go to ISS
Join us for the book launch on October 22, 2010!
Climbing to the Clouds: A People’s History of BC Mountaineering is the result of Rudy’s past, present and ongoing research regarding the long term historical use of mountainous landscapes of the Northwest Coast which provided the impetus for this project. This project blends Indigenous and scientific perspectives in a meaningful way for First Nations, academics and the general public. Wide ranging landscape use, affirming toponymy and many oral historical accounts are illustrated. Perceptions about past land and resource use of this region are challenged. Viewers will gain a different way of looking at mountainous landscapes, moving from remote, harsh, uninhabited and unused to places that are part of everyday life, beauty, inhabited for a very long time period and widely used for a number of purposes.
A more detailed discussion at a lecture at the North Vancouver Museum and Archives is scheduled for November 9th, 2010.
Simon Fraser University has accumulated added wealth of aboriginal knowledge through interactive learning, dialoguing, and hands-on practicums covers environmentalism, sustainability, and activism.
Continuum, Spiral Homeland: Surviving Modernity is realizedthrough the graceful and organizational excellence of Dr. annie ross, many helpers, and the funding support from SSRHC Canada, Aboriginal experts, elders, scholars and learners congregated, exchanged and interchanged knowledge and ideas. Now, a half decade later, Dr. annie ross, with many photo contributors including Emily Christensen, Robert Pictou, Justin Spence, through SFU LIDC, has "weaved" the memories of this new wealth into an online, comprehensive fabula. (Click Continuum to visit site.)
As you peruse through the website, keep in mind what has been accumulated and shared were made possible through the generous contributions of individuals such as master experts, artists, and representatives from several aboriginal nations including community leaders, members, elders, and spiritual leaders. Fellow academics, our administrative leaders, fellow colleagues, students and staff at SFU also participated. A special thanks to our dedicated students who devoted hours upon hours of volunteer time to ensure each event ran smoothly, respectfully, and filled with welcome. Some of the website's highlights are:
- Aboriginal Weavers and Weaving Conference - The first ever for SFU! Awesome!
- Honouring Weavers Gala with the Honourable Steven Point
- Aboriginal Artist Mentors Program
- First Nations Poetry Exchange, Earth Day Aboriginal Poetry Event
- International, Inter-National Print Exchange, and the "Endangered Species, Endangered Prints" Exhibit- Student works are presented; along with ongoing Oral History Research
In addition to the Continuum, Spiral Homeland: Surviving Modernity, annie held a photo exhibition in October 2009 where various themes in the form of photos were displayed across SFU Burnaby Campus.
From: SFU PEOPLE IN THE NEWS - October 22, 2010
Poppytalk, the top-rated Canadian blog for art and design, featured the work of SFU First Nations Studies assistant professor annie g. ross. The blog post focused on a project Ross is working on called Forest I, which involves a cedar bark, plastic strapping and wool-wrapped-twined and plaited 1956 Nash Metropolitan automobile. The bark is salvaged from urban forests clear cut for condo developments.
“Continuing the hand work of her Mayan lineage, Ross explains that ‘Forest I’ speaks of colonization, urban sprawl, the concept of trash (bark, considered trash to construction crews); remediating an urban landscape that came from the forest, and what can happen through the act of salvage,” described Poppytalk. “Thinking back to the basketry covered glass bottles, the project considers and speaks to the several waves of colonialism upon aboriginal peoples. Spirits are shown by flowers and animals woven in wool.”
Poppytalk: http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/search?q=annie+ross
Join First Nations Studies students and staff on Friday, October 22, 2010 (12 noon-1 pm) to celebrate the recent research achievements of the First nations Studies faculty members and affiliated scholars. For information, please check out the News section of the FNST website.
For upcoming courses taught by our NEWSMAKERS, go to: http://www.sfu.ca/fns/fncourse.htm