<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thanks David</div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>David Walsh via craic</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, January 2, 2021 11:11 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>CRAIC (craic@lists.integralshift.ca)</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>Assisting virtual Craic</div><div><b>Cc: </b>David Walsh</div><div><b>Subject: </b>[Craic] FW: Canadian artists AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson explore the power of apology and their shared history re the Siksika reserve in Alberta</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">Canadian artists AA Bronson and Adrian Stimson explore the power of apology and their shared history — their ancestors were sworn enemies. Aired:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">AA Bronson</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> is an artist living and working in Toronto and Berlin. In the sixties, he left University with a group of friends to found a free school, a commune,
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">AAB: </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919"> My great-grandfather was a missionary, the first missionary to the Siksika reserve,
which is one of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the one nearest Calgary. He was very focused on destroying Native culture — as were all the missionaries — but he was particularly focused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">H: </span></strong><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">So it’s about exposing your family legacy and their role in establishing the residential
schools?</span></em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">AAB: </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">Yes, my great-grandfather founded one of the first residential schools, somewhere
between 1883–1884. And, well, the little drama that happened; he was only there for 11 years, and then he was transferred to another reserve because there was a kind of uprising, which has been squashed in written history. You can’t find documentation of it;
it’s very, very difficult to find anything about it. But what we know happened was there was a tuberculosis epidemic amongst the children in the school. [With] tuberculosis, you need lots of air and sunlight, and you need to get out into the open air. He was
more or less locking the kids in school. He wouldn’t let their parents see them once they were sick because he was afraid the parents would get them to revert from Christianity back to paganism, and then they’d die of the disease, and their souls would go
to hell because they weren’t Christian. So he kept them locked up in the school, and they died in the school without ever seeing their parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">H: </span></strong><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">How did you uncover this?</span></em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">AA Bronson: </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">There’s a family story about it. That’s what took me to this project eventually.
There are stories from my father and my grandfather. My grandfather was the head of another residential school, and my father consequently grew up on a reserve. So the whole relationship to the Native peoples is very alive and well in my family history, just
through storytelling. And from each generation, you get a different kind of story. My father couldn’t cope with it; he ran away from home when he was 14, whereas my grandfather was a very pro-Christian missionary, but like the choir. My great-grandfather was
more like the innovator — developed the written language for Siksika, and translated big chunks of the Bible into Siksika. But he also took the kids away from their parents; they weren’t allowed to speak their own language. And despite the fact that he could
speak it — which seems really bizarre — they had to dress in Victorian British clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">H: </span></strong><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">In what ways will you address this in your art?</span></em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919"> </span></em><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">AAB: </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">I’m
doing a project called “Public Apology to Siksika Nation.” I want to apologize on behalf of my great-grandfather. Through doing the research on this, I met Adrian Stimson, who’s a Siksika native. He’s a Canadian artist who about a year ago moved back to the
reserve. He was living in Saskatoon, and incidentally he received the Governor General’s Award a few weeks ago. I am working on the project together with him.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">H: </span></strong><em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">Where will it take place?</span></em><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">AAB: </span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#191919">We would like to do part of it on the Siksika Reserve and another part of it in an
exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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