[Abstract]
This presentation will examine how active Indigenous presence from Turtle Island has been depicted in novels\ , short stories\, film\, autobiography\, and literary criticism by contempo rary Indigenous authors and filmmakers across the pond. Looking at diaspori c Indigenous people who have travelled to Europe or have made Europe their second home\, while still upholding their Indigenous languages and lifeways to their home communities and kin\, this talk approaches the work of the “ greats” of Indigenous literary arts to evaluate their depiction of distinct ive Indigenous lifeways amid disparate historical and cultural contexts\, s eeking to centre Indigenous presence as it happens in the European context and beyond.
[Bio]
Renae Watchman is from the Diné Nation in Shiprock\, NM. With a doctorate in German Studies from Stanford University (2007)\, she is an associate professor of English\, cro ss-appointed with Indigenous Studies at Mount Royal University in Calgary. She is also Co-director of the Office of Academic Indigenization.