The Power of Names

12/16/22 • 40 min

Taapwaywin: Talking about what we know and what we believe

What’s the name of the city, or town, or country that you’re in right now? Do you know where that name comes from? Do you know how long it’s been known by that name, or if it’s had any other names?

Today we’re looking at names across this country – the names of places, people, and individuals – and what truths about our history they reveal or obscure.

This episode Ry Moran talks with Daryl Kootenay, Heather Igloliorte, Lawrence Hill, and Robina Thomas about the deep connections between history, land, and identity.

Visit www.taapwaywin.ca for transcripts and more information.

Daryl Kootenay: https://www.banffcanmorecf.org/moving-mountains-co-lead-daryl-kootenay/

Heather Igloliorte: https://www.heatherigloliorte.ca/

Lawrence Hill: https://www.lawrencehill.com/

Robina Thomas: https://www.uvic.ca/hsd/socialwork/faculty/home/faculty/Members/thomas-robina.php

Barry Pottle’s Awareness Series (E-tag photographs): https://barrypottle.com/portfolio/awareness-series/

Lawrence’s Beatrice and Croc Harry: https://www.lawrencehill.com/beatrice-and-croc-harry

Today we’re looking at names across this country – the names of places, people, and individuals – and what truths about our history they reveal or obscure.

This episode Ry Moran talks with Daryl Kootenay, Heather Igloliorte, Lawrence Hill, and Robina Thomas about the deep connections between history, land, and identity.

Visit www.taapwaywin.ca for transcripts and more information.

Daryl Kootenay: https://www.banffcanmorecf.org/moving-mountains-co-lead-daryl-kootenay/

Heather Igloliorte: https://www.heatherigloliorte.ca/

Lawrence Hill: https://www.lawrencehill.com/

Robina Thomas: https://www.uvic.ca/hsd/socialwork/faculty/home/faculty/Members/thomas-robina.php

Barry Pottle’s Awareness Series (E-tag photographs): https://barrypottle.com/portfolio/awareness-series/

Lawrence’s Beatrice and Croc Harry: https://www.lawrencehill.com/beatrice-and-croc-harry

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Preservation, Destruction, Transformation

Around the world, communities are grappling with the traces of systemic violence and human rights violations that exist in the landscape around us.

How do we remember injustices when the physical signs of that history are no longer visible? What do we do with the buildings and structures that still stand? And how are the memories embedded within these sites both painful scars and opportunities for healing?

In this episode Ry Moran talks with Carey Newman, Oliver Schmidtke, and Tavia Panton about sites with difficult histories in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom and what to do with them.

Visit www.taapwaywin.ca for transcripts and more information.
Carey Newman: @blueravenart
https://www.uvic.ca/finearts/ahvs/people/faculty/profiles/cnewman.php
Oliver Schmidtke: https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/politicalscience/people/directory/schmidtkeoliver.php
Tavia Panton’s current project with Museums of Liverpool: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/waterfront-transformation-project
The Witness Blanket: https://witnessblanket.ca/
Bluecoat’s Colonial Legacies Project: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/coloniallegacies

[This episode contains discussions of Canada’s Residential School system, please take care. Resources for support are available on our website, should you need them.]

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Shifting Baselines

Around the world, we are witnessing massive amounts of irreversible ecological destruction brought about by the intersecting impacts of colonization, capitalism, and human induced climate change.
From the recent loss of billions of sea stars to the way environmental destruction infringes on protected Indigenous rights, in this episode we’re looking at the immense damage that has been inflicted on culture, language, and the environment – and the work being done to find pathways forward.
Ry Moran speaks with Alyssa Gehman, Mavis Underwood, Sean Holman, and Carey Newman about way that the climate crisis challenges us to fulfill our responsibilities to establish and maintain mutually respectful relations with each other, the land, and all living things.
Alyssa Gehman: https://gehmana.weebly.com/
Mavis Underwood: https://www.uvic.ca/socialsciences/anthropology/people/graduate-students/profiles/underwoodmavis.php
Sean Holman: https://www.uvic.ca/finearts/writing/people/faculty/profiles/holman-sean.php
Carey Newman: https://twitter.com/blueravenart
Sean Holman’s Climate Disaster Project: https://climatedisasterproject.com/
Sunflower Sea Star’s IUCN Red List Assement: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/178290276/197818455
You can report sightings of sunflower sea stars to https://www.inaturalist.org/ or https://marine.ucsc.edu/data-products/sea-star-wasting/index.html