Evolving Understanding and Intersectionality

The assignment is to read and reflect on excerpts from various texts related to Indigenous peoples, including 'The Reconciliation Manifesto' by Arthur Manuel and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson, and the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Students are also expected to engage with writings by Lisa Monchalin, Daniel Heath Justice, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Maureen Linker, and Fabiola Bahiyya Nabil Naguib. The assignment requires a 400-word critical reflection on one's web of belief and evolving understanding around Indigenous peoples, as well as a 400-word reflection on intersectionality of identity and self-inquiry through specific questions and thought experiments.

IDEA 1100 S50 - Assignments and presentations/readings for next week
Arthur Manuel (Secwepemc) and Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson (Syilx). Selected Excerpts. The
Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy (Toronto: James Lorimer &
Company Ltd., 2017). Nancy will be distilling and dialoguing with this and excerpts from The Truth
and Reconciliation Commission.
· The Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Selected Excerpts. Honouring the Truth, Reconciling
for the Future: Summary of the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada,
2015. Nancy will be distilling and dialoguing with this reading and the excerpts from the
Reconciliation Manifesto
· Lisa Monchalin. “Introduction to an Indigenous Perspective: Ideology and Teachings.” The
Colonial Problem: An Indigenous Perspective on Crime and Injustice in Canada, University of
Toronto Press, 2016, 23-38. Puneet will be distilling and dialoguing with this reading.
· Daniel Heath Justice. Selected Excerpt. Why Indigenous Literatures Matter, Wilfred Laurier
Press, 2018, 27-29. Puneet will be distilling and dialoguing with this reading.
· Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.
Vintage Canada, 2018, p 25-48.Harjapleen will be distilling and dialoguing with this reading and
Linker.
· Maureen Linker. “Introduction: Putting Up Walls,” Excerpts and “Finding Common Ground
through Intellectual Empathy.” Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice, University of
Michigan Press, 2015, pp. 41, 67-70, 72, 78, 96-102, 120-121, 134, 153-171.Harjapleen will be
distilling and dialoguing with this reading and Adichie.
· Fabiola Bahiyya Nabil Naguib, “Justice is Not a Marketplace,” “The Do’s and Don’ts of Writing,”
“Ancestral River,” “Christmas Eve,” “Roots of Racism,” “Poem for Crow,” “Notes on Creative
Process,” in Uninhabiting the Violence of Silencing: activations of creativity, ethics, and
resistance(Coast Salish Territories: Creativity Commons, 2007): 22, 31, 55-56, 71-72, 74-75, 96,
114. Harjot will be distilling and dialoguing with this reading.
Assignments Due (with flexibility as per syllabus for handing all February assignments on
the last class in February)

400 word (minimum length) critical reflection on your web of belief and evolving understanding
around Indigenous peoples, and thoughtful and integrative dialogue with writings by Manuel and
Derrickson, The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Monchalin and Justice.
400 word reflection (minimum length) on intersectionality of identity, self-inquiry through specific
questions and thought experiments (Linker 41, 78, 120-121, 134) and on principle of conditional trust
and mutual vulnerability. You are also asked to integrate engagement with Naguib and Adichie into
this reflection.
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