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Symbolic vs. Historical Truth
In 1938, Abraham Maslow lived with the Blackfoot (Siksika) Nation in southern Alberta for six weeks. Has it generated a modern myth that is still, somehow, meaningful and truthful?
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Four Views of Earth from the Moon
Stewart Brand, Martin Heidegger, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Ivan Illich each saw something different.
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Tallcree, Outbound
In 1987, on the Tall Cree reserve, just a few hundred kilometres north of Edmonton, a South African refugee and schoolteacher named Joe Pillay quietly became a node in Operation Vula. Meaning “open the road” in isiXhosa, Vula was the African National Congress’s encrypted command-and-control network — the secret backbone that kept leadership exiled in…
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Vula / Vela
A poem that situates two South African histories next to each other: Operation Vula and Vela Hotel. What questions do these parallel lines raise?