SFU Library’s Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre was created in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission 94 Calls to Action in assisting the SFU teaching community with Indigenizing and Decolonizing their curriculum. The Salish Weave Box Sets: Art & Storytelling Project is one research project the ICRC has created toward this goal.

Funded by the Salish Weave Fund held at the Victoria Foundation, the Salish Weave Box Sets: Art & Storytelling is centred around highlighting the voices of the artists within the Salish Weave Collection Box Sets, following Indigenous research methodologies. In particular, this project’s goal was to look into art as pedagogy and storywork, as described by Q’um Q’um Xiiem in her 2008 book, Indigenous Storywork.

The collection is recorded conversations between the artists, Ashley Edwards, and Courtney Vance. Within these conversations, artists share their influences, processes, what it’s like being a First Nations artist, and how art is a source of knowledge sharing.

Salish Weave Box Sets:
Art & Storytelling Project

Land Acknowledgement

Although this site holds space virtually, it is integral to recognize the stolen and occupied territories of the TsleilWaututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ),

Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm), Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw) and Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) First Nations on whose ancestral and traditional territories the project's work took place, and where this site was designed.

Upon clicking on each Nation, you will be redirected to their websites.

SFU Library's Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre operates on these territories as well.

Art & Storytelling Project Team

Ashley is Mètis, Scottish, and Dutch, and a Métis Nation BC citizen. Ashley has her MLIS (University of Alberta), BA in Adult Education (University of the Fraser Valley / UFV), and a Library Technician diploma (UFV). Through her work and research, Ashley examines decolonizing education, the concept of literature, and Indigenous information literacy.

Courtney is Northern-Tutchone and German, and a member of Selkirk First Nation. Courtney has her BA in Sociology & Gender Studies (SFU) and her MA in Sociology. In her graduate studies, Courtney is interested in Indigenous policy, decolonizing the city, and learning how to implement Indigenous planning processes on unceded unsurrendered territories.

Ashley Edwards
Project Lead

Courtney Vance
Research Assistant

Special thanks to all members from SFU Library who dedicated their time to publishing the recorded conversations onto SFU Digitized Collections.

Site Purpose

This site was designed to operate as an interactive extension of the project.

It holds the project's guiding bibliography, a list of the recorded conversations with links to the collection on SFU Digital Collections and additional information on the artists, and hosts educational activities related to the conversations.

Its hope is that this platform can offer a more engaging way to view the annotated bibliography that inspired the approach to the project, as well as offer interactive ways to engage with the recorded conversations. This site will continue to evolve as videos are added, new activities are created, and feedback is shared.

To begin viewing the project's annotated bibliography, click below.

Bibliography

Salish Weave Box Sets: Art & Storytelling Project