Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of the Indigenous Residential School System

This project is the first phase of my cumulative honors thesis for Global Studies. My greater project seeks to understand the Canadian relationship with their First Nations communities and the role that First Nations people play in situating Canada in the global trading system, and how that has evolved over time. Over the summer I spent time first situating myself in this global context. As a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, as a white woman who has ties to the colonial legacies of her home nations, and as an academic, an economist. I did so through creative expression of my experience with this act of reflexivity, with two large scale multi-medium art pieces depicting my relationship with indigenous history having been exposed to it in a colonial context.