Update

This is week five of my exploration into First Nations politics in B.C. and I’ll admit I’m getting a bit frustrated. That’s mostly because I haven’t been able to talk with anyone in person. In part, it’s because I’ve been busy these last two weeks, but it’s also because of a series of unfortunate events that’s led to the few interviews that I had set up being cancelled. The cancellations are not anyone’s fault, but they do leave me feeling a lack of momentum.

On the reading scene, I’ve started a few new books and that’s been interesting. I’ve been re-reading Elizabeth Furniss’s book The Burden of History and started Like the Sound of a Drum: Aboriginal Cultural Politics in Denendeh and Nunavut by Peter Kulchyski. Like the Sound of a Drum is about First Nations in the north, but it’s applicable to my learning because of the leading role that the Inuit have taken in education and self-governance. Their actions might act as templates for the First Nations in B.C. as more communities look to take a leading role in self-governance.

I’m enjoying my reading but am looking forward to doing actual interviews with real people. It’s my interactions with people that help me stay excited about a topic so it’s my goal to have done at least one interview by the end of this week for this blog.