Girl Running Canada - History settler literary narratives

settler literary narratives

and in many ways superior

NWT (now Naujaat

Ramsay’s land was taken by the government and given to the new settlers from Iceland who arrived there in 1875

First Nations and Inuit children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools where they were dressed in uniforms

Girl Running Canada - History settler literary narrativesMtis poet Diana Hope Tegenkamp takes us through many worlds and wonders in Girl Running. In this collection of poem there is solace and outrage, grief and tenderness, bewilderment and beauty, all entangled in hope and dreaming. The poets love of the natural world is both earthy and adamantine, and her passion for literature and art is just as rich a source for her questioning eye. On the edge of Saskatoon, a woman opens a car door and flees. A child