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Ecological Colonialism and the Impact of the ‘Englishman’s Foot’: A Literary Ecology of an Invasive Species
DownloadFall 2024
This thesis is a habitat study of plantago major or broad leaved plantain. Brought to North America sometime before the 1700’s, it was nicknamed Englishman’s Foot by the Indigenous peoples who watched it walk across their lands with the colonizers. Taking Laurie Ricou’s model of a habitat study...
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Uprooting and Re-Routing a Settled Sense of Place: Reading Settler Literary Cartographies of Northwestern British Columbia
DownloadFall 2021
The places of northwestern British Columbia, and the Indigenous and settler peoples who find work, build homes, establish communities, and sustain culture in these places, are often perceived as peripheral or overlooked, existing on the edge or outside of the notice, care, and understanding of...