Inconvenient Skin: Nayêhtâwan Wasakay
This timely Canadian poem, written by Shane Koyczan, translated into Cree, and illustrated by Indigenous artists and photographers, was written as a response to celebrations of Canada’s 150 years as a nation. It calls for accountability into the ways in which Indigenous people have been treated. Politically and racially charged, students can broaden their understandings of Indigenous perspectives, think critically about the past and present, and explore Residential Schools, Reconciliation, small pox blankets, genocide, loss of cultural identity, and missing and murdered Indigenous women.
residential schools
reconciliation
First Peoples' history
Idle No More
Canadian history
church-run schools
poetry
Indigenous art

Copyright
2019
Primary Identifier
9781926886510
Recommended Grades & Subjects/Courses
10-12
Evaluation/Record Entry Date
Subject
English Language Arts