HICR annotated bibliography: Artistic, oral and written resources of historical injustices and current realities
Date
2024
Authors
Wabegijig, Shaelyn
Bowick, Emma
Ashrafkhani Limoudehi, Babak
Sy, waaseyaa’sin Christine
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Colonial Injustices and Current Realities: UVic
Abstract
This annotated bibliography, initiated in 2023, aimed to identify publications, sources, and artistic outputs created by scholars, artists, and writers who belong to the Indigenous nations on Vancouver Island, paying particular attention to Ləkʷfəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples. One method for disrupting settler colonial orientations to Indigenous intellectual and creative life is to centre and amplify what Indigenous peoples of a particular place document, create, produce, and publish. One way to learn about a place is to learn from the Indigenous peoples who belong to that place. And, one way to learn what is important to the Indigenous peoples of a place is to read, view, and engage with what they document, creative, produce, and publish. This not only enables those who are not Indigenous to a place to learn from an Indigenous-centered method which in turn shapes how they will live in that place with Indigenous peoples. It also enables researchers to conduct research that is informed by the thinking, orating, and creativity of Indigenous peoples in whose lands and waters we conduct research and create. Collating and curating such sources enables Indigenous peoples of a place to witness people who are not Indigenous to their lands and waters actively valuing their contributions in meaningful ways. Additionally, such a source serves to inform researchers in the absence of living relationships with Indigenous knowledge holders, practitioners, or Elders of a place. Finally, such a resource may serve Indigenous peoples of a place to see the terrain of their collective publications over a period of time.
As the project unfolded, it expanded to include additional sources that may be organized within the theme of historical injustices and current realities of the colonization of the lands and waters in what is currently known as Victoria. We consider this a living document that will ideally have new additions, ‘volumes’, or iterations. Archived in CIRC: UVic’s repository (2025), in it’s first “volume”, we see and hope that other researchers, including those Indigenous to the lands and waters with whom U Vic has a relationship, will find this a helpful starting point to understanding not just the settler colonial history and present of the “UVic place” but the Ləkʷfəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ history, present, and futures of this place. These sources collectively exemplify the intersectionality of these histories and realities. When engaging with complex and layered stories, histories, and lived realities that critically examines colonization and inter-related issues, we should not underestimate the vital importance of privileging Indigenous and other oppressed peoples’ perspectives and voices.
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Colonial Injustices and Current Realities: UVic, annotated bibliography, Historical Injustices and Current Realities (HICR)