Gina Brooks and Rachel Bryant
GINA BROOKS is a Wәlastәkwew storyteller and educator from Sitansisk. She resides in her traditional unceded homeland and is informed by Waponahki traditional knowledge in her educational and artistic practice. She is the founder of Caribou Club, a land-based arts, recreation, and treaty education facility, and she offers land-based teachings in her community as part of the Nuhkmoss, Muhsoms, Naka Ni’l program, which nurtures connections between Elders and youth. | RACHEL BRYANT is an English professor in the Department of Humanities and Languages at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. She studies colonial literary cultures and her own ancestors, who were New England Planters and Loyalists who came to Waponahkik in the 18th century. Their promises to live in good relationship with Waponahki people inform her ongoing research program on non-Indigenous responsibilities under the Peace and Friendship Treaties.