"A valuable and timely collection." — Alan D. Filewod , author of Committing Theatre Following the Final Report on Truth and Reconciliation, Performing Turtle Island investigates theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance. Understanding Indigenous cultures as critical sources of knowledge and meaning, each essay addresses issues that remind us that the way to reconciliation between Canadians and Indigenous peoples is neither straightforward nor easily achieved. Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers performance as both a means to self-empowerment and self-determination, and a way of placing Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the lands of Turtle Island and on the world stage. "Brilliantly introduces pedagogies that jump scale; a bundling project for future ancestors revealing knowledges for flight into kinstillatory relationships." — Karyn Recollet , co-author of In This Together: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Hip Hop "An important resource for those who want to introduce or incorporate Indigenous artistic perspectives in their course or work." — Heather Davis-Fisch , author of Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance "A very significant and welcome contribution to the growing body of work on Indigenous theatre and performance in the land now called Canada." — Ric Knowles , author of Performing the Intercultural City

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Perspectives on Current Practice
by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin, Moira J. Day

PART I: CRITICAL SELF-REPRESENTATION IN PRODUCTION AND TRAINING
1. Stranger in a Strange Land: Views from an Indigenous Lens
by Michael Greyeyes
2. Making a Movie: How to Carry an Elephant up a Mountain
by Armand Garnet Ruffo
3. Decolonizing Counterpoints: Indigenous Perspectives and Representations in Classical Music and Opera
by Spy Dénommé-Welch and Catherine Magowan
4. Making Our Own Bundle: Philosophical Reflections on Indigenous Theatre Education
by Carol Greyeyes
5. Conversation with Daniel David Moses, August 2016
by Annie Smith and Daniel David Moses

PART II: PERFORMANCE IN DIALOGUE WITH THE TEXT
6. Performing the Bingo Game in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters
by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber
7. A Prayer for Rita Joe
by Yvette Nolan
8. Cradling Space: Towards an Indigenous Dramaturgy on Turtle Island
by Dione Joseph
9. Standing with Sky Woman: A Conversation on Cultural Fluency
by Kahente Horn-Miller
10. Resurgence, Recognition, and Remaining Settled Through Changes at UpFront ’91
by Megan Davies

CODA: THE DREAM OF AN IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE 11. Red People, Red Magic
by Floyd P. Favel

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Index