Teaching

GPHY 351: Geographies of Indigenous-Settler Relations reconsiders settler narratives of the Canadian state by engaging Indigenous scholarship and emphasizing critical engagement with Indigenous perspectives on Indigenous-settler relations.

For the final assignment for the course in the Winter 2023 semester, students were given the option to choose a research paper, an academic book review or a creative/arts-based project. The parameters of each option differed slightly, but were united in the aim to engage directly with key geographical themes from the course in a critical analysis of Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada. Students were reminded throughout the semester that the course was not only an intellectual endeavour, but a deeply personal and often emotional one. As a result, many of the final assignments took on a very personal tone as students with diverse positionalities examined their own roles and responsibilities vis-à-vis Indigenous-settler relations, witnessing and truth, and ultimately the pursuit of reconciliation and justice.

This website is intended to provide an exhibit space for some of the class contributions to this assignment—each student whose work is presented here provided their consent to have their work displayed in this way.