2023 Individual Inquiry Projects

Areessa’s Painting

For my individual inquiry project, I decided to paint an original art piece that reflects Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships. My question for the project was: “How has the residential school system contributed to the failure in the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people?”
In my research I found numerous answers to my question, and I wanted my results from my research to be incorporated into my art. In my art piece, there are two sides. The left side represents Indigenous people, culture, and society, while the right side represents those of non-Indigenous people.
My painting is called “Connections in Canvas”. I wanted my painting to be very symbolic, so I thought about what all the elements could represent. On the Indigenous side, everything is being casted as a shadow – a silhouette. This represents how Indigenous culture and history is being shadowed and not learned/understood about as much as it should be. I wanted to highlight key parts of the Indigenous culture, so I added a bison and crops, symbolizing how Indigenous communities embrace nature through intergenerational wisdom and diverse cultural perspectives. On the right side of the painting symbolizes westernized society, including tall buildings and not much natural land embracing. The tall buildings represent colonization as it represents dominance of the settlers.

Mahderekal’s Short Documentary

Rihansa’s Poem

For my Individual Inquiry project, I wrote a poem called “To Heal the Scars Within” which is a 33-stanza poem with 130 lines. For the creation of this poem, I used the knowledge I gained through the course of TRC about the creation stories, colonization, residential schools, what the children experienced in residential schools, the healing process, and how inter – generational trauma affected the children of the generations afterwards from all the rotations. 

Hashini’s Essay on Treaties

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Sehaj’s Website

Dercontee’s Crochet

Wil’s Minecraft Build

Emmet’s Song

Rimple’s Essay

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Rowan’s Métis Presentation

A Few Other Art Projects