Zali Morgan, Colours of Goolugatup, 2023. Watercolour Monoprint on Arches, 76cm × 56cm. © Zali Morgan, 2023. Reproduced with permission of the artist.
Westerly: First Nations
The stories, poems, oratory, art and images contained within this special digital collaborative project between ‘Fives: A Companion to Denver Quarterly’ and ‘Westerly’ is representative of the rich diversity of native and indigenous cultural experience and their unique conceptions of storytelling and world-building.
‘For each writer, poet, storyteller, artist and orator included in this collaborative project labor within complex sets of relationships and connections that both define and remake their unique places in the web of existence, while being generative of fresh permutations and visionary insights that can carry us all more tenderly and safely into the future rapt in the twirling, swirling and circling systems of time, space and the mysteries of being.’
‘On Native and Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures in the Land Through Memory, Image and Storytelling’, Billy J. Stratton, University of Denver
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Contents
Billy J. Stratton On Native and Indigenous Pasts, Presents and Futures in the Land Through Memory, Image and Storytelling
Sarah-Jane Burton The Wonder and Silence of Paper
Brenda Saunders ‘An Englishman’s Estate’ from ‘The Expeditions of Major Mitchell’, 1836, State Library of NSW.
Brenda Saunders Coro-boree
William Walks Along Words and Memories at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site October 5, 2022
Kimberly Blaeser Vernal
Kimberly Blaeser Gitigaanan
Kimberly Blaeser Giishpin Ikwewag, Giishpin Nibi (If Women, If Water)
In the pause before you speak Kimberly Blaeser
Dr Stacey Kim Coates Reflections on a Journey
Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. American Rex
Paul Collis About Last Night
Paul Collis So Deep the Blue…
Diane Glancy Mid July, Texas
Diane Glancy Two Spirals on the Canyon Wall
Diane Glancy Summons
Diane Glancy If We Could but Lightly Travel
Samia Goudie Salt Water Dancing
Marion Kickett My Connection to my Grandmother’s Country
Teneale Lavender Remembrance
Brent Learned Manifest Destiny
Gerald Vizenor Fugitive Puppets
Chelinay Gates Fingers
Luci Tapahonso Ilíígo1 Naalyéhé2: Goods of Value
Errata
A correction needs to be noted in Samia Goudie’s piece ‘Salt Water Dancing’, on p.71-2, the word ‘Booglebah’ should be spelt ‘Boogelbah’. Apologies to the traditional custodians and community of speakers of the Bundjalung language for this error.
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