Igniting Conciliation and Counting Coup as Redress: Red Reasoning in Tailfeathers, Johnson, and Lindberg

Renae  Watchman

Articles

Vol. 46 No. 2 (2021): Indigenous Literary Arts of Truth and Redress / Arts littéraires autochtones de vérité et de réparation

Igniting Conciliation and Counting Coup as Redress: Red Reasoning in Tailfeathers, Johnson, and Lindberg

Renae Watchman^▸^▾

Soumise: juin 30, 2022
Publié-e: 2022-07-04

Références

A Red Girl’s Reasoning. Directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, performances by Jessica Matten, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Christian Sloan, and Rose Stiffarm, Crazy8s Film Society and NdN Girl Productions, 2012.
Anderson, Kim, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt, editors. Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. U of Alberta P, 2018.
Barrie, Hannah. “‘I Used to Think You Were Just a Story’”: Imagined Violence in Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ A Red Girl’s Reasoning.” Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 21, no. 7, 2020, pp. 107-19.
“Birdie.” HarperCollins Canada. HarperCollins Publishers News Group, 2021. www.harpercollins.ca/9781443451352/birdie/.
Campeau, Ian. “Men Need to Speak Out against Sexual Violence.” YouTube, uploaded by Maclean’s, 20 Dec. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-J1G4zsxE.
Crop Eared Wolf, Annabel. Matsiyipáítapiiyssini: Kainai Peacekeeping and Peacemaking. 2007. University of Lethbridge, PhD dissertation. ProQuest, libproxy.mtroyal.ca/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libproxy.mtroyal.ca/docview/304716690?accountid=1343.
Daignault, Alexandra. “Looking Back.” Sarjesa, 28 Jan. 2019, sarjesa.com/blog-back.
“The Darkness and the Light of Birdie Reflects Tracey Lindberg’s Own Life Story.” Unreserved, season 2016, episode 300241677, CBC Radio, 5 March 2016, www.cbc.ca/player/play/2684830963.
Friedland, Hadley Louise. The Wetiko Legal Principles. Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization. U of Toronto P, 2018.
Goeman, Mishuana. “‘Remember What You Are’: Gendering Citizenship, the Indian Act, and (Re)mapping the Settler Nation-State.” Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations. U of Minnesota P, 2013, pp. 41-86.
Hanson, Aubrey Jean. “Reading for Reconciliation? Indigenous Literatures in a Post-TRC Canada.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2/3, 2017, pp. 69-90. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1353/esc.2017.0022.
Hargreaves, Allison. Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017.
Innes, Robert Alexander, and Kim Anderson. “The Moose in the Room: Indigenous Men and Violence against Women.” Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters, edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt. U of Alberta P, 2018, pp. 175-92.
“Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Our Women and Girls Are Sacred. National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, 2017, https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/ffada-mmiwg/CP32-163-1-2017-eng.pdf.
Johnson, E. Pauline. “A Red Girl’s Reasoning.” The Moccasin Maker, edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, U of Arizona P, 1987, pp. 102-26.
Keeler, Emily M. “Law of the Land: Tracey Lindberg’s Debut Novel, Birdie, Puts Cree Poetics in the Spotlight.” The National Post, 15 June 2015. news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/law-of-the-land-tracy-lindbergs-debut-novel-birdie-puts-cree-poetics-inthe-spotlight.
Killebrew, K.L. “Imagining Revenge: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ A Red Girl’s Reasoning and Indigenous Women’s Activism on the Subject of Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Filming Reconciliation: Indigenous Screen Cultures in an Age of Redress. 2020, pp. 133-65. Northern Illinois University, PhD dissertation.ProQuest, docview/2421991845?accountid=1343.
Klein, Laura Frances, and Lillian A. Ackerman. Women and Power in Native North America. U of Oklahoma P, 1995.
Kovacs, Alexandra V. “Developing a Costume; Or, ‘The Most Difficult Thing in the World’ September to December 1892.” “I May Act Till the World Grows Wild and Tense”: The Performances of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake. 2016, pp. 84-115. University of Toronto, PhD dissertation.
Lindberg, Tracey. Birdie. HarperCollins Canada, 2015.
MacDonald, David B. The Sleeping Giant Awakens. Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation. U of Toronto P, 2019.
Macdougall, Brenda. “Wahkootowin: Family and Cultural Identity in Northwestern Saskatchewan Metis Communities.” The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no. 3, 2006, pp. 431-62.
McGinnes, Anthony R. “Counting Coup.” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishhart, U of Nebraska P, 2011. plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.013
Piatote, Beth H. Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature. Yale UP, 2013.
Piatote, Beth H. “Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison.” American Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1, 2011, pp. 95-116. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/41237533.
Raheja, Michelle H. Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film. U of Nebraska P, 2010.
Shuvera, Ryan Ben. Sounding Unsettlement: Rethinking Settler States of Mind and Re(-) cognition through Scenes of Cross-Cultural Listening. 2020. University of Western Ontario, PhD dissertation. ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9540&context=etd
“Sisters in Spirit Handout.” Native Women’s Association of Canada. trentu.ca/education/sites/trentu.ca.education/files/documents/SistersinSpirit_Handout_0.pdf.
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011.
Sugai, Joey. “Kainai Wellness Centre to Host Multiple Blood Tribe MMIWG Events in May 2021.” Kainaiwa. 3 May 2021. https://bloodtribe.org/index.php/2021/05/03/kainai-wellness-centre-to-host-multiple-blood-tribe-mmiwg-events-in-may-2021/.
Therien, Eloise. “Southern Alberta Community Supports REDress Campaign.” Global News. 19 Feb. 2021. https://globalnews.ca/news/7651815/stand-off-alberta-missingand-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls/.
Truth & Reconciliation: Calls to Action. Booklet. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Government of Manitoba, 2015.
Verstraten, Katelyn. “For Indigenous Women, Radical Art as a Last Resort.” The Tyee, 22 June 2013, thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2013/06/22/Radical-Art/.
Watchman, Renae. “Reel Restoration in Drunktown’s Finest.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal (NAIS), vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 29-54.
Werito, Vincent. “Understanding Hózhǫ́ to Achieve Critical Consciousness: A Contemporary Diné Interpretation of the Philosophical Principles of Hózhǫ́.” Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought, edited by Lloyd Lee, U of Arizona P, 2014, pp. 25-38.

Comment citer

Watchman, R. . (2022). Igniting Conciliation and Counting Coup as Redress: Red Reasoning in Tailfeathers, Johnson, and Lindberg. Études En littérature Canadienne, 46(2), 213–233. Consulté à l’adresse https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32921

Mention de droit d'auteur

[1] A Red Girl’s Reasoning. Directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, performances by Jessica Matten, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Christian Sloan, and Rose Stiffarm, Crazy8s Film Society and NdN Girl Productions, 2012.

[2] Anderson, Kim, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt, editors. Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters. U of Alberta P, 2018.

[3] Barrie, Hannah. “‘I Used to Think You Were Just a Story’”: Imagined Violence in Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ A Red Girl’s Reasoning.” Journal of International Women’s Studies, vol. 21, no. 7, 2020, pp. 107-19.

[4] “Birdie.” HarperCollins Canada. HarperCollins Publishers News Group, 2021. www.harpercollins.ca/9781443451352/birdie/.

[5] Campeau, Ian. “Men Need to Speak Out against Sexual Violence.” YouTube, uploaded by Maclean’s, 20 Dec. 2017, www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie-J1G4zsxE.

[6] Crop Eared Wolf, Annabel. Matsiyipáítapiiyssini: Kainai Peacekeeping and Peacemaking. 2007. University of Lethbridge, PhD dissertation. ProQuest, libproxy.mtroyal.ca/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.libproxy.mtroyal.ca/docview/304716690?accountid=1343.

[7] Daignault, Alexandra. “Looking Back.” Sarjesa, 28 Jan. 2019, sarjesa.com/blog-back.

[8] “The Darkness and the Light of Birdie Reflects Tracey Lindberg’s Own Life Story.” Unreserved, season 2016, episode 300241677, CBC Radio, 5 March 2016, www.cbc.ca/player/play/2684830963.

[9] Friedland, Hadley Louise. The Wetiko Legal Principles. Cree and Anishinabek Responses to Violence and Victimization. U of Toronto P, 2018.

[10] Goeman, Mishuana. “‘Remember What You Are’: Gendering Citizenship, the Indian Act, and (Re)mapping the Settler Nation-State.” Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations. U of Minnesota P, 2013, pp. 41-86.

[11] Hanson, Aubrey Jean. “Reading for Reconciliation? Indigenous Literatures in a Post-TRC Canada.” English Studies in Canada, vol. 43, no. 2/3, 2017, pp. 69-90. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1353/esc.2017.0022.

[12] Hargreaves, Allison. Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2017.

[13] Innes, Robert Alexander, and Kim Anderson. “The Moose in the Room: Indigenous Men and Violence against Women.” Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters, edited by Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell, and Christi Belcourt. U of Alberta P, 2018, pp. 175-92.

[14] “Interim Report: The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Our Women and Girls Are Sacred. National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, 2017, https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2017/ffada-mmiwg/CP32-163-1-2017-eng.pdf.

[15] Johnson, E. Pauline. “A Red Girl’s Reasoning.” The Moccasin Maker, edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff, U of Arizona P, 1987, pp. 102-26.

[16] Keeler, Emily M. “Law of the Land: Tracey Lindberg’s Debut Novel, Birdie, Puts Cree Poetics in the Spotlight.” The National Post, 15 June 2015. news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/law-of-the-land-tracy-lindbergs-debut-novel-birdie-puts-cree-poetics-inthe-spotlight.

[17] Killebrew, K.L. “Imagining Revenge: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ A Red Girl’s Reasoning and Indigenous Women’s Activism on the Subject of Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.” Filming Reconciliation: Indigenous Screen Cultures in an Age of Redress. 2020, pp. 133-65. Northern Illinois University, PhD dissertation.ProQuest, docview/2421991845?accountid=1343.

[18] Klein, Laura Frances, and Lillian A. Ackerman. Women and Power in Native North America. U of Oklahoma P, 1995.

[19] Kovacs, Alexandra V. “Developing a Costume; Or, ‘The Most Difficult Thing in the World’ September to December 1892.” “I May Act Till the World Grows Wild and Tense”: The Performances of E. Pauline Johnson Tekahionwake. 2016, pp. 84-115. University of Toronto, PhD dissertation.

[20] Lindberg, Tracey. Birdie. HarperCollins Canada, 2015.

[21] MacDonald, David B. The Sleeping Giant Awakens. Genocide, Indian Residential Schools, and the Challenge of Conciliation. U of Toronto P, 2019.

[22] Macdougall, Brenda. “Wahkootowin: Family and Cultural Identity in Northwestern Saskatchewan Metis Communities.” The Canadian Historical Review, vol. 87, no. 3, 2006, pp. 431-62.

[23] McGinnes, Anthony R. “Counting Coup.” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishhart, U of Nebraska P, 2011. plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.war.013

[24] Piatote, Beth H. Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature. Yale UP, 2013.

[25] Piatote, Beth H. “Domestic Trials: Indian Rights and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison.” American Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1, 2011, pp. 95-116. JSTOR, jstor.org/stable/41237533.

[26] Raheja, Michelle H. Reservation Reelism: Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film. U of Nebraska P, 2010.

[27] Shuvera, Ryan Ben. Sounding Unsettlement: Rethinking Settler States of Mind and Re(-) cognition through Scenes of Cross-Cultural Listening. 2020. University of Western Ontario, PhD dissertation. ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=9540&context=etd

[28] “Sisters in Spirit Handout.” Native Women’s Association of Canada. trentu.ca/education/sites/trentu.ca.education/files/documents/SistersinSpirit_Handout_0.pdf.

[29] Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence. Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2011.

[30] Sugai, Joey. “Kainai Wellness Centre to Host Multiple Blood Tribe MMIWG Events in May 2021.” Kainaiwa. 3 May 2021. https://bloodtribe.org/index.php/2021/05/03/kainai-wellness-centre-to-host-multiple-blood-tribe-mmiwg-events-in-may-2021/.

[31] Therien, Eloise. “Southern Alberta Community Supports REDress Campaign.” Global News. 19 Feb. 2021. https://globalnews.ca/news/7651815/stand-off-alberta-missingand-murdered-indigenous-women-and-girls/.

[32] Truth & Reconciliation: Calls to Action. Booklet. National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Government of Manitoba, 2015.

[33] Verstraten, Katelyn. “For Indigenous Women, Radical Art as a Last Resort.” The Tyee, 22 June 2013, thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2013/06/22/Radical-Art/.

[34] Watchman, Renae. “Reel Restoration in Drunktown’s Finest.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal (NAIS), vol. 7, no. 2, 2020, pp. 29-54.

[35] Werito, Vincent. “Understanding Hózhǫ́ to Achieve Critical Consciousness: A Contemporary Diné Interpretation of the Philosophical Principles of Hózhǫ́.” Diné Perspectives: Revitalizing and Reclaiming Navajo Thought, edited by Lloyd Lee, U of Arizona P, 2014, pp. 25-38.