The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic valerie-lancaster including letters to his two

including letters to his two Haida grandchildren about the importance of their First Nations heritage

this powerful memoir tells the uplifting story of an Indigenous man’s struggle to reconnect with his culture and walk in the footsteps of his father and the generations of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artists that came before him

and his life in a remote Indian village before moving to the Reserve

tied inexorably to the sport he loves

The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic valerie-lancaster including letters to his twoCan literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty first century? What might nation to nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts