and Elwood Jimmy - Speaking My Truth
and Elwood Jimmy - Speaking My Truth
and Elwood Jimmy - Speaking My Truth
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Notes1 <strong>Elwood</strong> <strong>Jimmy</strong> acknowledges the following resources that were helpful in composingthis interaction with S<strong>and</strong>ra’s <strong>and</strong> James’s artwork: The Alberta Encyclopedia <strong>and</strong> theRoyal Alberta Museum; Cuth<strong>and</strong>, Doug (2007). Askiwina—A Cree World. Regina, SK:Coteau Books; the Blue Quills First Nations College website (available at: http://www.bluequills.ca/); <strong>and</strong> the words <strong>and</strong> thoughts of others, including my mom, who knewabout the stone.2 Ka kiss is kach e whak is the spelling of the Rock Cree word used by the late JamesNicholas as he understood to be the basis for the word, Saskatchewan. It is this versionof the word that appears in the photographic installation.Cultivating Canada | 67