Avenue of Champions Traditional Learning Taiaiake Alfred

Taiaiake Alfred

development of reserves and residential schools

This book covers contemporary issues in a humorous

He steadily handed out prison sentences with little regard for long-term consequences and even less knowledge as to why crime was so rampant on the reserve in the first place

and offer brief biographical entries on people in the arts

Avenue of Champions Traditional Learning Taiaiake AlfredDaniel is a young Mtis man searching for a way to exist in a world of lateral violence, intergenerational trauma and systemic racism. Facing obstacles of his own at every turn, he observes and learns from the lived realities of his family members, friends, teachers and lovers. He finds hope in the inherent connection of Indigenous Peoples to the land, and the permanence of culture, language and ceremony in the face of displacement. Set in Edmonton,