First Peoples Shared Stories
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First peoples in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The first migration, the first exploration, the discovery of landscapes without the footprint of humankind. These stories, drawn from submissions from new writers and cast alongside ancient stories and traditions from around the world brings fresh perspectives to the legacy of first nations.

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First peoples in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. The first migration, the first exploration, the discovery of landscapes without the footprint of humankind. These stories, drawn from submissions from new writers and cast alongside ancient stories and traditions from around the world brings fresh perspectives to the legacy of first nations.
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Paula Morris MNZM (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Manuhiri) is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, essayist and editor from New Zealand. She is the author of award-winning novels such as Queen of Beauty (2002) and Rangatira (2011), as well as fiction and nonfiction collections: Forbidden Cities (2008), On Coming Home (2015) and False River (2017). Paula holds degrees from universities in New Zealand, the UK and the US, including a D.Phil from the University of York and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature and Wharerangi, the Māori literature hub. She has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships and since 2003 has taught creative writing at universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans, and the University of Sheffield in England. She is director of the Master in Creative Writing programme at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Dr. Eldon Yellowhorn (Introduction) is a member of the Piikani Nation and professor at Simon Fraser University where he teaches Indigenous Studies. He grew up on the Peigan Indian Reserve, attended the University of Lethbridge and later the University of Calgary where he completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Geography in 1983. After working at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump he returned to the UofC in 1984 and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Archaeology in 1986. After he finished his degree, he was a Curator Intern at the Glenbow Museum until 1988. He was awarded a fellowship with the Smithsonian Institution in 1988 and worked on an archaeological site in Colorado. When he returned he started graduate school at Simon Fraser University, where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1993. He started his doctoral studies at McGill University in 1995 and received his PhD in 2002. He was recruited by Simon Fraser University in 1998 to develop the First Nations Studies Program. He established the Department of Indigenous Studies in 2012 and was the first Chair until 2017. His research combines archaeology, history and Blackfoot language revitalization. His published works have appeared in journals including Native Studies Review and Plains Anthropologist. Books he has co-authored include Turtle Island: The Story of North America's First People and What the Eagle Sees: Indigenous Stories of Rebellion and Renewal . Created and developed at Flame Tree Publishing, independent publisher and creator of fine books, journals, notebooks and art calendars, with a focus on myths, gothic fantasy and great works.