Living in the Margins, Even in Stone:
Dominant Narratives in the Nation’s
Capital and the Cost to Indigenous
Nations and Canada
Presented by: Pitseolak Pfeifer
CDNS 4000
Capstone Seminar in Advanced Research in Canadian Studies
March 2013
Creating Memory and a National Identity
http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/places-tovisit/public-art-monuments/colonel-by-statue
http://www.canada-photos.com/picture/statue-ofrobert-baldwin-sir-louis-hippolyte-lafontaine-grounds-ofparliament-hill-city-of-ottawa-6337.htm
http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/places-to-visit/publicart/reconciliation-peacekeeping-monument
http://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/collineduparlementparliamenthill/images/batir-building/terrainsgrounds/sjamacdonald.jpg
Joseph Brant “Tyendeniga”
and the Valiants Memorial
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National Memory and War
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http://www.canadascapital.gc.ca/places-to-visit/public-artmonuments/national-aboriginal-veterans-monument
Champlain Statue and
the Anishnawbe Scout
http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2009/10/10/the
-controversy-of-the-champlain-monument/
http://urbsite.blogspot.ca
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http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2009/
10/10/the-controversy-of-thechamplain-monument/
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Moving Forward
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