I'm looking at the next entry for this series, and I love it so much, it's amazing. So for this series, it's basically this, the Walrus, but Native. When the series is done, that's what it'll be, a full version of the magazine, with that mix of stories - but Native. 1 https://twitter.com/walrusmagazine/status/1277718355043123200

And that doesn't mean 10 stories berating the white man about white man stuff. I mean obviously a bit of that. But it's more about telling stories without that filter that you get when you're writing for a non-Native publication. 2

I love Erika's story, and I love the Barnaby interview - his movie was great and I like how direct and harsh he was with some of the clueless critics. My food piece, ugh, I had such a different conception for it. I love it, what it is, but I wish it had more recipes. 3

I'd really like people to look at the editor's note. Look at the languages and the religion and the references it draws on. Not just Native, not just non-Native, but a full mix. It doesn't refer vaguely to teaching, but quotes our scriptures: 4

I wish that non-Natives (and tbth more Natives) to have the cultural competence to use our references along with the Ancient Greek and Hebrew, and for competence in those to be the measure of an intelligent Canadian. 5

I don't think you should be able to pass yourself off as smart in this country and not know the Indigenous name of the place you're standing on, not know it's gods, legends, battles. If the words of Socrates are known to us, then Swaneset's are knowable too. 6

When the Europeans first looked at our country, they called it terra incognita, terra ignota - when they arrived and drew maps, they put their names all over it, and never really tried to know it, and so for the most part it remains to them terra incognita 7

That's the idea there partly, or the idea behind the title at least. You don't know enough about Canada without knowing us, and you don't know us by editing our words until they're a red-washed version of your own. 8

I guess one other thing. I hate that the stuff that appeals to non-Native audiences - and on Twitter too - is the same few issues, or the same angry whatever. That's always what we're asked to write. You have to know that on rez, people talk about other things. 9

But all these 'allies' want to hear is the same, white man bad, water good talk. Yeah, water good, obvs. But that talk is 88% about you people, and it's so boring to write about and talk about. Look at this thread, the most wholly Native part is the one with the least likes. 10

Here's the challenge for those allies, it's in the editor's note. 11

So I hope you enjoy the series and the record we have broken for the greatest number of mother fucking fucks written on a single fucking page of the Walrus. 12