Whitemud walking / Matthew James Weigel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weigel, Matthew James, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--History--Poetry.

Indigenous peoples.

Genre:

poetry.

visual poetry.

Creative nonfiction.

History.

Poetry.

Visual poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022]

Summary:

"An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive. Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that land. It is about the interrelatedness of his own story with that of the colonial history of Canada, which considers the numbered treaties of the North-West to be historical and completed events. But they are eternal agreements that entail complex reciprocity and obligations. The state and archival institutions work together to sequester documents and knowledge in ways that resonate violently in people's lives, including the dispossession and extinguishment of Indigenous title to land. Using photos, documents, and recordings that are about or involve his ancestors, but are kept in archives, Weigel examines the consequences of this erasure and sequestration. Memories cling to documents and sometimes this palimpsest can be read, other times the margins must be centered to gain a fuller picture. Whitemud Walking is a genre-bending work of visual and lyric poetry, non-fiction prose, photography, and digital art and design."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT PAGE

A NOTE AS WE BEGIN

PART ONE

Articles of a Treaty

INSIDE THE POP-UP BOX

TO BE A THING CUT IN STONE

TO BE A THING UNFINISHED

ANCESTORS OF AUTHOR DETERMINED (TO BE A GOOD ANCESTOR)

FAMILY PHOTOS

LIST OF RULES I HAVE BROKEN IN THE ARCHIVE

ACTS RESPECTING VIOLENCE TO THE NORTH-WEST

WHITEMUD WALKING: I

RELEVANT FACTS AND NUMERALS OF TREATY AND MÉTIS SCRIP

SELF-SERVE PHOTOGRAPHY APPLICATION

NORTH-WEST HISTORIOGRAPHY

PLACE OF CREATION: NO PLACE, UNKNOWN, OR UNDETERMINED

ADELAIDE ROWAND

HUNT UP THE HALF-BREED WHOSE SCRIP THIS WAS

CONCERNING HIS CLAIM TO PARTICIPATE (1497707)

CONCERNING HER CLAIM TO PARTICIPATE (1497707)

MEMORANDUM: HALFBREEDS

FILL OUT THIS FORM

WHITEMUD WALKING: II

1870: QUEEN VICTORIA ACQUIRES AD NAUSEUM

WHITEMUD WALKING: III

WE DROWNED THE LAND OF ENGLAND IN THE WATERS OF DENENDEH

PÊHONÂN

THIS STORY IS CALLED: THE PRISON WARDEN BOUGHT MY UNCLE'S BUFFALO AND SOLD THEM TO LORD STRATHCONA

1876: TREATY NO. 6

ON THE BOUNDARIES OF TREATY NO. 6

WHITEMUD WALKING: IV

PART TWO

PART THREE

WHITEMUD WALKING: V

EDMONTON CITY PLANNING: 1890-2022

A NATURAL YARD IS NOT

WHITEMUD WALKING: VI

WHITEMUD WALKING: VII

URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT PLAN

DOMINION LAND SURVEY

WHITEMUD WALKING: VIII

WHAT THE CROWN PREPARED BUT DID NOT BRING TO LIARD

EDMONTON'S WHITEMUD CREEK

1921: TREATY NO. 11.

2020: WITNESS (CONTINUED)

WHITEMUD WALKING: IX

THE CPR WANTED TO PROVE THE PARALLEL LINE THEOREM

1872: PRIME MINISTER MACDONALD ASKS FOR A BRIBE

1873: PRIME MINISTER MACDONALD TESTIFIES ON BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS

1885: BOUND IN IRON

WHERE THE TRACK MEETS THE TRAIL OUTSIDE MY DOOR TO PÊHONÂN

CPR ADVERTISEMENTS OF A POPULATED LANDSCAPE

2020: CPR - OUR HISTORY

FRAGMENTS

PART FOUR

METHODS AND MATERIALS

YOU COULD THINK OF THIS*

THE GEOLOGY OF COLONIALISM

OR: TO EXPROPRIATE FROM THE BRITISH MUSEUM'S TRUSTEES

PARALLELS

'PROBABLY 80 PERCENT OF THE MOUNTAIN GLACIERS IN ALBERTA AND B.C. WILL DISAPPEAR IN THE NEXT FIFTY YEARS.'

AND WHEN IT'S GONE, IT'S GONE

THIS IS NOT AN ODE TO THE DAY I FELL OFF MY BIKE AND SKINNED MY KNEE

WHITEMUD WALKING: X

AUTHOR'S ECOLOGY

AUTHOR'S BIOLOGY.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781770567139

1770567135

9781770567122

1770567127

OCLC:

1303083706