Submissions by Authors

I am Musqueam I am looking for the next chess game I am learning about my culture I am listening for words from home I am remembering Ayasha I used to have kittens, warm and furry I am wanting to know my people and my culture I am running on…

Our ancestors likely broke into conflict just as often as we do today. There is no definitive way to know how they dealt with this, but we can hypothesize as to how they would deal with it by analyzing artifacts from hundreds of years ago. Many…

I am Huu-ay-aht I am looking for food I am listening to music I am remembering my culture I used to skateboard I am hopeful I am waiting for a journey I am running on coffee I am chasing dreams I am hoping to graduate I am living a happy…

I am Sterling I am Nisga’a (Frog and Raven clan) I am really interested in photography I hear a lot of heavy metal coming from my headphones with the loudest setting for volume I see the world dying because of humans I feel the wind every…

We are not like the stereotyped Hollywood Indigenous people, the ones that ride horses and shoot bows and arrows and wear headdresses. They are based on Plains First Nations; other nations are totally different. Horses came to the plains in the…

I am Gwa’sala-‘Nakwaxda’xw  I am looking for independence  I am learning to love myself  I am listening to my dad blast The Cars in the morning as he gets ready for work. I am remembering when I went to school- when I saw myself in the…

Can you imagine a group of young women mountaineering high in the Rockies then sitting down to a cup of tea and a plein air painting session? After researching this artist I learned Hilda Vincent Foster composed this red-breasted nuthatch in the…

Yokohama-e is a genre of Japanese painting that developed in the early 1860s in Yokohama as a result of cultural and political intersection with Western nations after centuries of self-imposed seclusion.  These are paintings carried out in the…