JOURNAL ARTICLE

The Liberation of the Chinook Wind.

  • Published In: PUBLIC, 2024, v. 35, n. 70. P. 62 1 of 3

  • Database: Art Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Willard, Tania 3 of 3

Abstract

This article focuses on "Liberation of the Chinook Wind," an Indigenous art project by Tania Willard that explores the interconnected histories of the Chinook language, Chinook Wind, and Chinook salmon to assert Indigenous presence and land claims. The project highlights the Chinook salmon's introduction to Lake Ontario by settlers in the 1960s and uses poems generated from live weather data to evoke the wind's agency as an animate being in Secwépemc creation stories. It emphasizes Indigenous cosmologies of interrelatedness and ongoing responsibilities to land and water, including current water claims by the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. The work was displayed at the University of Toronto Mississauga campus and engages with themes of colonization, land defense, and ecological stewardship.

Additional Information

  • Source:PUBLIC. 2024/12, Vol. 35, Issue 70, p62
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Social Sciences and Humanities
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0845-4450
  • DOI:10.1386/public_00209_1
  • Accession Number:181258984
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