Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village office but also examine land claims

but also examine land claims still under negotiation

Crispin Smith (Planning Consultant

currently teaches Native American literature and drama in the English Department at the University of Maine

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Invocation: Using Contemplative Meditation to Foster Change

Coyote and Raven Go Canoeing: Coming Home to the Village office but also examine land claimswe are narrators narratives voices interlocutors of our own knowings we can determine for ourselves what our educational needs are before the coming of churches, residential schools, prisons, before we knew how we knew what we knew. In a gesture toward traditional First Nations orality, Peter Cole blends poetic and dramatic voices with storytelling. A conversation between two tricksters, Coyote and Raven, and the colonized and the colonizers, his