The collection is ever relevant considering the ongoing challenges for Indigenous peoples protecting our rights in the face of corporate and Canadian racism, greed, and colonial practices. This Place: 150 Years Retold is a fantastic teach ing tool for junior and high-school students and a great read for any age.
This Place is the graphic novel I’ve waited for my whole life, and the graphic novel Canada has needed for 150 years.
The stories contained within its pages are both beautifully rendered and vitally necessary. Hopefully this is just the first of many anthologies to challenge that long-taught, one-sided narrative. This Place: Thoughtful, inspiring, and moving, This Place: 150 Years Retold collects ten tales about the Indigenous communities of Canada and their troubled relationship with the country’s non-Indigenous inhabitants.
Now Available! This Place: 150 Years Retold graphic anthology of timeless stories of Indigenous resistance and renewal in the face of Canadian colonialism. This Place: 150 Years Retold includes a variety of historical and contemporary stories that highlight important moments in Indigenous and Canadian history. This Mi'kmaq comic writer chose the Listuguj salmon raids of 1981 for the story he contributed to This Place: 150 Years Retold, a collection of stories by Indigenous writers.
And yet it barely scratches the surface of Indigenous history and storytelling. If you are looking to expand your YA historical and/or Indigenous books collections, you won’t want to miss the graphic novel anthology, This Place: 150 Years Retold.With a forward by Alicia Elliott, this collection includes ten illustrated stories inspired by significant real-life people, events, and experiences told from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit perspectives. Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Indigenous Authors of This Place: 150 Years Retold Canada, our cheerful, polite neighbor to the north, hasn’t always lived up to its ideals.
They represent a history not only largely untold and unknown, but one obscured, hidden from sight, so that other stories may occupy a privileged place in defining a national story. It introduces students to the unique demographic, historical, and cultural legacy of Indigenous communities, and explores acts of sovereignty and resiliency.
This ten story anthology begins, as the title suggests, 150 years ago, in the late 1860s, and each story advances the timeline one or two decades at … Hopeful in its defiance and unquestionable in its rejection of erasure, “This Place” is deeply informative and full of heart.
This Place, 150 Years Retold, written by 11 different authors/artists, is a collection of ten short stories about the indigenous people of Canada and their sad dealings with the governments and locals through time.