![]() ![]() ![]() These stereotypes are themselves birthed from what Métis scholar Jo-Ann Episkenew describes as the creation myth of the settler nation-state. ![]() The diverse cultures of our many nations are subsumed into homogenous labels like ‘Aboriginal’, and the richness and complexity of our existence lost to racist stereotypes of ignorant savages. The centre ground of ‘truth’ is claimed by Eurocentric knowledge traditions, while ancient Indigenous understandings are labeled myth and legend, the stuff of metaphor rather than metaphysics. The edges of society, of history, and even of the consensus of reality. ![]() And I often think of the words of Wunambal elder and poet Daisy Utemorrah, who wrote: ‘Do not go around the edges/or else you’ll fall/No good that place/or else you slip.’Īboriginal people share a long experience of being forced to the edges, along with Indigenous peoples elsewhere on this planet. I write speculative fiction for young adults. My people are the Palyku, of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. ![]()
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