Literary Arts

image of forest on winter taken low to the snow covered ground. Text on image reads: On my walks the path beneath me varies. When the path is a concrete trail through a jungle of brick, my ears are plugged with a recorded thunderous melody. But when I am alone on a path of earth and rock under a canopy of green, my ears are open to the symphonic story, that the land and all its creatures, wishes to tell me.

SOFIA VAUGHAN

Grade 11

"On My Walks"

Poetry for Connecting to Algonquin Territory Assignment

Image of marshy looking creek on a grey spring day, with dog walking to shore. Text on top of image reads I realized plants were healing from winter. More color Greens and reds I grew up here am a visitor My ancestors came here I want to be respectful to the original people who were here first. This land is sacred

MAggie Gruber

Grade 11

"I realized..."

Poetry for Connecting to Algonquin Territory Assignment

Settler Perspective

Carmyn Gale-fields

Grade 11

"Mud Lake"

Poetry for Connecting to Algonquin Territory Assignment

Settler Perspective

emily wilson

Grade 11

"Whispers..."

Poetry for Connecting to Algonquin Territory Assignment

Settler Perspective

MAtthew Kawesa

Grade 11

Poetry for Connecting to Algonquin Territory Assignment

Juliana S.

Grade 9

''Inhabited Land''

This piece is about how when the explorers came to Canada, they proclaimed it terra nullius. It is about how popes signed papal bulls designating that this land was now theirs. It is about the oppression of Indigenous people justified by documents and is a portrait of unceded, unsurrendered land.