The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic valerie-lancaster and his life in a

and his life in a remote Indian village before moving to the Reserve

including letters to his two Haida grandchildren about the importance of their First Nations heritage

tied inexorably to the sport he loves

There is an unconscious racism at work in Canada—an ignorance of Aboriginal peoples and culture that breeds indifference to

clever shortcuts

The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic valerie-lancaster and his life in aCan literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological divides in the twenty first century? What might nation to nation literary relations look like? Through readings of a wide range of northeastern texts