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Terra Cognita

A special series guest-edited by Robert Jago. Reframing the landscape of Indigenous storytelling

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Letter to a Young Indigenous Journalist

August 31, 2020August 31, 2020 - by Waubgeshig Rice

You will feel alone. You will want to give up. But I urge you to keep going

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Terra Cognita

June 29, 2020August 31, 2020 - by Robert Jago

The Indigenous stories we would rather be telling

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Notes from an Apocalypse

June 29, 2020July 6, 2020 - by Chelsea Vowel

In Jeff Barnaby’s latest horror film, the zombies are colonizers and only we are immune

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The Hungry People

June 29, 2020July 23, 2020 - by Robert Jago

Europeans like to go on about the innovations colonizers brought to the Americas. But what of the innovations they took away?

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Editor’s Letter

June 29, 2020July 2, 2020 - by Robert Jago

What would our stories look like if, just for a little while, we stopped telling them for other people and instead told them for ourselves?

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Bloodlines

June 29, 2020June 30, 2020 - by Erika T. Wurth

Sometimes a little vigilante justice is the sweetest revenge

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