Emily Carr occupies a complicated, enduring place in Canadian cultural history. Celebrated as a visionary modernist painter and a fiercely original writer, she is also a figure whose life’s work is inseparable from her encounters with Indigenous peoples and cultures of the Northwest Coast. Her relationship to Indigenous communities was shaped by deep admiration, personal intimacy, colonial assumptions, and the constraints of her era. Nowhere are these tensions more visible than in Klee Wyck,…
read more
