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, Nisga’a writer
Jordan Abel explores how the colonial violence of residential school impacted his grandparent’s generation, his father’s generation, and his own.
According to the publisher Penguin Random House,
NISHGA “is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible.”
On Thursday, May 27, Jordan Abel will take part in a one-hour conversation on Wordfest.com, as part of their
Author of the article: Jon Roe
Publishing date: May 20, 2021 • 3 hours ago • 2 minute read • A still from Poppie Nongena, which opens the inaugural Calgary Black Film Festival.
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Nesteroff, who is a white man from British Columbia but lives in Hollywood, has said that he approached the book by emphasizing Indigenous comedians telling their own stories in their own words. In fact, major Indigenous authors, including
Stephen Graham Jones,
David Treuer, and
Philip J. Deloria have lauded the project. Nevertheless, some readers might be wary to trust this story to be told correctly by a historian who isn’t Indigenous.
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