The Black Eagle canoe at Simon Fraser University. This is a replica of famed dugout canoe 'Loo Taas' (Wave Eater). Bill Reid & assts carved it from a 750-year-old cedar tree for Expo ’86. It was the first Haida ocean going canoe to be carved on the Northwest Coast in more than 100 years.

Did my MA during the pandemic and now trying to do a PhD with the threat of fascism looming ahead and revolution down south. I also have a teen trying to navigate all this. What I am trying to say is...it's hard to focus...having some difficulty.

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Many thanks to @penfielding.bsky.social for this fascinating chapter, "Usurpt by Cyclops: Rivers, Industry, and Environment in C18 Poetry," and for introducing me to the study of river poetry. I am loving it. #ecocriticism

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. - Augusten Burroughs

Google told to change Mount Denali to McKinley. #Colonization of place has always been achieved through cartographic manipulation and place naming. When colonizers came to our shores they mapped and named places as if they were a Lockean blank slate despite Indigenous people living there.

Catholics and others as well. This is from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum.

The world's a mess but I still have to read 'Bardic Nationalism' by Katie Trumpener for my comps...keeping focused. The best part is that it's Dr. Betty A. Schellenberg's previous copy!

Another good book I just recently read is "The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927" by Jace Weaver.

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How Scottish literature in the late C18 and early C19 unsettles. Issue Title: "Unsettling Scottish Literature"
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