With LitCon only a few weeks away, you won’t want to miss the newly added session Not a Branch but the Tree: Indigenous Literacies and the North American Canon. Check out the other featured sessions here as you plan your trip to Columbus.

There is no literacy or literatures in North America without the foundation contributions of Indigenous intellectual traditions. In a presentation by an international columnist, media commentator and one of the foremost scholars on Indigenous literacies and literatures in North America, come and hear how, without Indigenous cultures and communities, literacies in North America would not exist as they are known today.

Niigaan Sinclair is Anishinaabe and a professor of Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics at the University of Manitoba. Named by Maclean’s as one of the most influential individuals in Canada, he is also an award-winning writer, editor & activist.

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