Jeannette Armstrong is Syilx Okanagan, a fluent speaker and teacher of the Nsyilxcn Okanagan language and a traditional knowledge keeper of the Okanagan Nation. She currently is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Okanagan Philosophy at UBC Okanagan. She has a Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous Literatures.

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Janet MacArthur is an Associate Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus). She created and taught the first courses there on women’s literature, autobiography, and trauma studies in the humanities. She has published a monograph on the reception of early modern poetry as well as articles on women’s literature, postcolonial literature, settler colonial life writing, and disability narratives. Recent conference presentations have been on relations among Syilx, mixed heritage, and settler women in the southern interior, and on Holocaust film and fiction.

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Lally Grauer has long been involved in Canadian and Indigenous literatures and oratures in Canada. During her graduate studies at the University of Toronto she gathered and analyzed writings from the Riel Rebellion of 1885 (“In the Camp of Big Bear”). As an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan she taught both Canadian and Indigenous literatures. Together with Jeannette Armstrong, she published Native Poetry in Canada (2001) and has collaborated with Indigenous authors in papers and articles.

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