The Turtle Island Cluster is situated in two regions of Canada, Vancouver and Ottawa, with two graphic narratives emerging through the collaboration of Indigenous co-leads Shannon Leddy and Duncan McCue, settler scholar Biz Nijdam, Indian Residential School survivors and two Indigenous graphic novelists.
Each graphic novel explores the impact of the Canadian Indian Residential School system from a different perspective, providing new narratives of these experiences to deepen and nuance our shared understanding of the trauma, survivance, and the legacy of colonial violence on Turtle Island. Further, because we prioritise transparency in our research methodology, the process of testimony gathering and graphic novel production at each site will also be the subject of a short documentary film. This additional media expands both our multimodal storytelling knowledge mobilisation strategy, but also increases the potential reach of our work to engage those who may otherwise not encounter it.
For more information, please visit the official page for the Turtle Island Cluster in Survivor-Centred Visual Narratives Project.