Storied places: decolonizing settler colonial urban landscapes with Indigenous public art in Winnipeg, Treaty One

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dc.contributor.authorBlack, Honoure
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeCooper, Sarah (City Planning)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeBotar, Oliver (School of Art)
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeDe Lorenzo, Catherine (Monash University)
dc.contributor.supervisorWilson Baptist, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-25T15:01:19Z
dc.date.available2025-04-25T15:01:19Z
dc.date.issued2025-03-21
dc.date.submitted2025-03-21T16:33:36Zen_US
dc.degree.disciplineDesign and Planning
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
dc.description.abstractContemporary Indigenous public art can serve as a transformative (re)mapping medium. Through spatial expressions on the land, art can perform as a creative tool that aids in decolonizing the commons, by deconstructing biases, (re)storying histories, and igniting landscape narratives. In Canada, Indigenous public art can also provoke reconciliatory understandings regarding First Nations, Inuit, Métis, and Indigenous communities and peoples. This dissertation uses mixed methods and methodologies of critical place inquiry to create a decolonial framework for arts-based research that is transdisciplinary and intersectional. Data collection tactics are deployed through a variety of strategies such as ethnography, storywork, and site-writing. Through a feminist lens, I work to be a critically reflexive ethical researcher while asking: How do I continue to confront my position as a White settler female academic in the academy? By weaving together both Indigenous and non-Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, I work to See with Two Eyes through this work. The first of three case studies examines the Métis community of Rooster Town and the public artwork Rooster Town Kettle and Fetching Water, by Ian August. The second investigates The Forks and the artwork Niimaamaa by KC Adams, Jaimie Isaac, and Val Vint, a sacred symbol of women, water, and the Earth that binds Indigenous peoples to the history of this site. The final case study examines the insurgent and resurgent activism of Indigenous temporal public art created through acts of 'counter-monumenting.' Two images of Queen Victoria, George Frampton’s Queen Victoria Statue, and Roland Souliere’s Mediating the Treaties, reveal the history and effects of the IRS system. Indigenous public art has the power to aid in reconciliation, while unsettling dominant hegemonic power structures through spatial expressions on the land. In this research, decolonial methods and methodologies work to dismantle power imbalances by creating intersectional stories of land, peoples, and histories that converge with contemporary interventions of public art in Winnipeg, Treaty One.
dc.description.noteMay 2025
dc.description.sponsorshipFaculty of Graduate Studies Research Completion Scholarship ($5,000), 2023, University of Manitoba Indigenous Press Scholarship ($1,500), 2023, Manitoba Arts Council Learn Scholarship ($3,000), 2022, University of Manitoba Indigenous Press Scholarship ($2,000), 2021, Maxwell Starkman Travel Grant, Faculty of Architecture ($4,000), 2021, Manitoba Arts Council PhD Student Grant ($3,000), 2020, Faculty of Architecture Entrance Scholarship ($5,000), 2019.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/39045
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectPublic Art
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectResurgence
dc.subjectReclamation
dc.subjectStroytelling
dc.subjectWinnipeg
dc.subjectLandscape
dc.subjectSettler Colonialism
dc.subjectReconciliation
dc.subjectCounter-Monument
dc.subjectMemory
dc.titleStoried places: decolonizing settler colonial urban landscapes with Indigenous public art in Winnipeg, Treaty One
local.subject.manitobayes
oaire.awardNumber752-2021-2788
oaire.awardTitleDoctoral Fellowship
oaire.awardURIhttps://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/fellowships/doctoral-doctorat-eng.aspx
project.funder.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13039/501100000155
project.funder.nameSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council
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