Tsawalk: Rupturing Canada’s First World War Origin Story in Redpatch

Alicia Fahey

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Vol. 48 No. 1 (2023): Special Issue: The Ruptured Commons

Tsawalk: Rupturing Canada’s First World War Origin Story in Redpatch

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Submitted: May 16, 2024
Published: 2024-05-21

References

Archibald-Barber, Jesse Rae, et al. “Introduction: Perspectives on Current Practice.” Performing Turtle Island: Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage, edited by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber et al. U of Regina P, 2019, pp. xiii-xxxvii.
Berton, Pierre. Vimy. 1986. Anchor Canada, 2001.
Bethune, Brian. “Sublime — and Deadly.” Maclean’s, 4 July 2005, p. 30.
Calvert, Raes, and Sean Harris Oliver. Redpatch. Talonbooks, 2019.
Carter, Jill. “Sovereign Proclamations of the Twenty-First Century: Scripting Survivance through the Language of Soft Power.” Nolan and Knowles, pp. 33-65.
Dyer, Gwynne. “Canada Comes of Age.” National Post [Toronto], 8 Aug. 2014, p. A15.
Gordon, Neta. Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014.
Hayes, Gregory, et al., editors. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007.
Hokowhitu, Brendan. “Producing Elite Indigenous Masculinities.” Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012, pp. 23-48.
Innes, Alexander, and Kim Anderson. “Introduction: Who’s Walking with Our Brothers?” Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration, edited by Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson, U of Manitoba P, 2015, pp. 3-17.
Jin, Justin. “Battle for a Ridge a ‘Sterling Moment’ in Canada’s History.” Globe and Mail [Toronto], 13 May 2000, p. A23.
Jones, David C. “Redpatch Casts a Light on the Indigenous Soldiers of the Great War.” Vancouver Presents, 11 Mar. 2019, www.vancouverpresents.com/theatre/redpatchcasts-a-light-on-the-indigenous-soldiers-of-the-great-war/.
Joseph, Bob. “Indigenous Veterans: Equals on the Battlefields, but not at Home.” Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigenous-veterans#:~:text=Many%20status%20Indian%20soldiers%20had,no%20longer%20had%20Indian%20status.
LaCapra, Dominick. Writing History, Writing Trauma. Johns Hopkins UP, 2001.
Laskaris, Sam. “Richard Atleo to Receive Honorary Degree from Toronto’s Ryerson University.” Ha-Shilth-Sa, Canada’s Oldest First Nation’s Newspaper, 29 Apr. 2019, hashilthsa.com/news/2019-04-29/richard-atleo-receive-honorary-degree-torontosryerson-university.
McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War. Between the Lines, 2016.
McKegney, Sam. Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood. U of Manitoba P, 2014.
Nolan, Yvette, and Ric Knowles, editors. Performing Indigeneity: New Essays on Canadian Theatre. Playwrights Canada Press, 2016.
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. “Nuučaan̓uułathin We Are Nuu-chah-nulth.” Alberni Design, 2023, nuuchahnulth.org.
Scheyer, Lauri. Theatres of War: Contemporary Perspectives. Bloomsbury, 2021.
Simmonds, Jason Woodman. “Native Earth Performing Arts’s Death of a Chief: Unearthing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.” Nolan and Knowles, pp. 167-96.
Umeek/E. Richard Atleo. Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview. U of British Columbia P, 2004.
Valpy, Michael. “Vimy Ridge: The Making of a Myth.” Globe and Mail [Toronto], 7 Apr. 2007, p. F4.
Vance, Jonathan. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. U of British Columbia P, 1997.
Wasserman, Jerry. “Theatre Review: The Great War from an Explosive Aboriginal Perspective.” Review of Redpatch, by Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver. Vancouver Sun, 14 Mar. 2019, vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/theatre-review-redpatch.
Winegard, Timothy. For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. U of Manitoba P, 2012.
Wolfe, Patrick. “Nation and MiscegeNation: Discursive Continuity in the Post-Mabo Era.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, no. 36, 1994, pp. 93-152.
—. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006, pp. 387-409.
Zacharias, Robert. “Some Great Crisis: Vimy as Originary Violence.” Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012, pp. 109-28.

How to Cite

Fahey, A. (2024). Tsawalk: Rupturing Canada’s First World War Origin Story in Redpatch. Studies in Canadian Literature, 48(1), 189–208. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/34173

Copyright Notice

[1] Archibald-Barber, Jesse Rae, et al. “Introduction: Perspectives on Current Practice.” Performing Turtle Island: Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage, edited by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber et al. U of Regina P, 2019, pp. xiii-xxxvii.

[2] Berton, Pierre. Vimy. 1986. Anchor Canada, 2001.

[3] Bethune, Brian. “Sublime — and Deadly.” Maclean’s, 4 July 2005, p. 30.

[4] Calvert, Raes, and Sean Harris Oliver. Redpatch. Talonbooks, 2019.

[5] Carter, Jill. “Sovereign Proclamations of the Twenty-First Century: Scripting Survivance through the Language of Soft Power.” Nolan and Knowles, pp. 33-65.

[6] Dyer, Gwynne. “Canada Comes of Age.” National Post [Toronto], 8 Aug. 2014, p. A15.

[7] Gordon, Neta. Catching the Torch: Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014.

[8] Hayes, Gregory, et al., editors. Vimy Ridge: A Canadian Reassessment. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007.

[9] Hokowhitu, Brendan. “Producing Elite Indigenous Masculinities.” Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2012, pp. 23-48.

[10] Innes, Alexander, and Kim Anderson. “Introduction: Who’s Walking with Our Brothers?” Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration, edited by Alexander Innes and Kim Anderson, U of Manitoba P, 2015, pp. 3-17.

[11] Jin, Justin. “Battle for a Ridge a ‘Sterling Moment’ in Canada’s History.” Globe and Mail [Toronto], 13 May 2000, p. A23.

[12] Jones, David C. “Redpatch Casts a Light on the Indigenous Soldiers of the Great War.” Vancouver Presents, 11 Mar. 2019, www.vancouverpresents.com/theatre/redpatchcasts-a-light-on-the-indigenous-soldiers-of-the-great-war/.

[13] Joseph, Bob. “Indigenous Veterans: Equals on the Battlefields, but not at Home.” Indigenous Corporate Training Inc., www.ictinc.ca/blog/indigenous-veterans#:~:text=Many%20status%20Indian%20soldiers%20had,no%20longer%20had%20Indian%20status.

[14] LaCapra, Dominick. Writing History, Writing Trauma. Johns Hopkins UP, 2001.

[15] Laskaris, Sam. “Richard Atleo to Receive Honorary Degree from Toronto’s Ryerson University.” Ha-Shilth-Sa, Canada’s Oldest First Nation’s Newspaper, 29 Apr. 2019, hashilthsa.com/news/2019-04-29/richard-atleo-receive-honorary-degree-torontosryerson-university.

[16] McKay, Ian, and Jamie Swift. The Vimy Trap: Or, How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great War. Between the Lines, 2016.

[17] McKegney, Sam. Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood. U of Manitoba P, 2014.

[18] Nolan, Yvette, and Ric Knowles, editors. Performing Indigeneity: New Essays on Canadian Theatre. Playwrights Canada Press, 2016.

[19] Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. “Nuučaan̓uułathin We Are Nuu-chah-nulth.” Alberni Design, 2023, nuuchahnulth.org.

[20] Scheyer, Lauri. Theatres of War: Contemporary Perspectives. Bloomsbury, 2021.

[21] Simmonds, Jason Woodman. “Native Earth Performing Arts’s Death of a Chief: Unearthing Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.” Nolan and Knowles, pp. 167-96.

[22] Umeek/E. Richard Atleo. Tsawalk: A Nuu-chah-nulth Worldview. U of British Columbia P, 2004.

[23] Valpy, Michael. “Vimy Ridge: The Making of a Myth.” Globe and Mail [Toronto], 7 Apr. 2007, p. F4.

[24] Vance, Jonathan. Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War. U of British Columbia P, 1997.

[25] Wasserman, Jerry. “Theatre Review: The Great War from an Explosive Aboriginal Perspective.” Review of Redpatch, by Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver. Vancouver Sun, 14 Mar. 2019, vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/theatre-review-redpatch.

[26] Winegard, Timothy. For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War. U of Manitoba P, 2012.

[27] Wolfe, Patrick. “Nation and MiscegeNation: Discursive Continuity in the Post-Mabo Era.” Social Analysis: The International Journal of Anthropology, no. 36, 1994, pp. 93-152.

[28] —. “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native.” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 8, no. 4, 2006, pp. 387-409.

[29] Zacharias, Robert. “Some Great Crisis: Vimy as Originary Violence.” Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies, edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Robert Zacharias, Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2012, pp. 109-28.