Literature Matters: Reading the Great Lynx, Mishipeshu: Place-based Identity in Anishinaabe Literature

Talks by members of the Department of English

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Literature Matters
Talks by members of the Department of English

Reading the Great Lynx, Mishipeshu: Place-based Identity in Anishinaabe Literature
by Adar Charlton

Wednesday, Nov. 22
7:30 pm
Grace-Westminster United Church, Social Hall, 505 10th Street East

How does literature matter in our connections to place? What role does literature play in settler and Indigenous relationships to land? This month's talk will explore Indigenous Anishinaabeg literature in the form of pictographs, birch bark scrolls, oral stories, film and contemporary events to find out. 


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