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Jordan Abel Interview 1: Clip 1
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Colonisation, Landscape / Skyline, Totem Poles
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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In this clip, Jordan Abel discusses his relationship to Vancouver as a place and how his family histories and traumas are tied to Vancouver and the legacy of colonial violence. He discusses the placement of Indigenous art throughout Vancouver (and the totem poles in Stanley Park in particular) and the complexities around displaying Indigenous art and tradition in such a public space, weighing accessibility against voyeurism.
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Jordan Abel Reading: "Of his own volition..." from The Place of Scraps
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Totem Poles, Poetic Intervention
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Date
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2018-01-19
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Description
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In this audio clip, Nisga'a writer Jordan Abel reads a short excerpt from his poetry collection Place of Scraps. The collection as a whole interrogates Marius Barbeau's role as an ethnographer in the early twentieth-century, and this scene in particular focuses on a totem pole moved from the Nass River Valley (Northern British Columbia) to a museum in Toronto as part of Barbeau's project.