Performing Turtle Island : Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage [Hardcover]

A valuable and timely collection. Alan D. Filewod, author of Committing Theatre

Following the Final Report on Truth and Reconciliation, Performing Turtle Island investigates theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance.

Understanding Indigenous cultures as critical sources of knowledge and meaning, each essay addresses issues that remind us that the way to reconciliation between Canadians and Indigenous peoples is neither straightforward nor easily achieved. Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers performance as both a means to self-empowerment and self-determination, and a way of placing Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the lands of Turtle Island and on the world stage.

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barberis from oskana k?-asast?ki and is an associate professor of Indigenous literatures at First Nations University of Canada in Regina. He is the editor of kisisk?ciwan: Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly and the writer and producer of the Making Treaty 4 performance project.


Kathleen Irwinis Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina.


Moira J. Dayis a professor of drama at the University of Saskatchewan, where she also serves as an adjunct member of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Unit. She lives in Edmonton.

This anthology places Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the shores of Turtle Island and on the world stage. A valuable and timely collection. Brilliantly introduces pedagogies that jump scale; a bundling project for future ancestors revealing knowledges for flight into kinstillatory relationships. An important resource for those who want to introduce or incorporate Indigenous artistic perspectives in their coul#—