Her competition in the category includes Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler for Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press), Jenn Ashton for People Like Frank (Tidewater Press), Michael Hutchinson for The Case of the Missing Auntie (Second Story Press) and Katłįà for Land-Water-Sky / Ndè-Tı-Yat’a (Fernwood Publishing).
In its fourth year, the literary contest is recognizing Indigenous talent across nine categories spanning languages, genres and media.
The Indigenous Voices Awards were established in 2017 with the support of a fundraising campaign launched in response to the online furor over an editorial in Write magazine proposing a Canadian literary prize for cultural appropriation.
This year, a total of $39,000 will be split among the winners on National Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21.
Irish playwright and poet, 1854–1900
The things of nature do not really belong to us; we should leave them to our children as we have received them.
Speech, Ottawa, 12 May 1882
In conclusion, Oscar Wilde died in 1900, and the quotation appeared in the 1936 book “Oscar Wilde Discovers America”. The notes section at the end of the book did not specify the documentation the authors used to verify the quotation. Thus,
QI is uncertain how to evaluate the credibility of the attribution to Wilde.
Image Notes: Public domain image of the painting “The Equatorial Jungle” by Henri Rousseau circa 1909. The image has been cropped and resized.
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