A group of 国民彩票 students earned credit for a history course they took last year and another kind of credit, too, as collaborators on a graphic novel that will soon land in the hands of high school students across Canada.聽
Rocking Spurs: The Anti-Bullying Tour was created by students in a third-year seminar on M茅tis Histories and Culture taught by Dr. Lisa Binkley, an assistant professor in the Department of History.
Dr. Binkley challenged the students to take what they were learning in the course about M茅tis identities, literature, laws, and events and integrate it into an adaptation of the novel by M茅tis author K.D. Beckett.聽
鈥淓verybody [in the class] was involved with the creation of it,鈥� says Dr. Binkley, who organized a gathering recently to celebrate the graphic novel鈥檚 launch.
Dr. Lisa Binkley speaks at a launch event for a graphic novel her third-year seminar class created last year based on a novel by M茅tis author K.D. Beckett.聽
Beckett鈥檚 novel follows a country-rock band called the Rocking Spurs who have an accidental encounter with a young Qu茅bec-born Innu-M茅tis artist and her child. The band learns that this woman has been severely bullied on social media and faces racism on a regular basis, so the band members use their fame and wealth to expose the persecutors that have been bullying this woman and other Indigenous people.聽
Funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) and the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) supported the project and enabled the class to hire award-winning graphic artist Robert Plante to illustrate and oversee the art work of the graphic novel. Now, 1,500 copies are bound for libraries in high schools across the country and will also be available for purchase locall