The Salish Weave Box Sets

Abstract

The Salish Weave Box Sets: Art and Storytelling Project is a project carried out for the Indigenous Curriculum Resource Centre (ICRC) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) Library, with the goal of providing resources to include Indigenous art in the post-secondary classroom. The project looked at the concept of art as literature, using the concept of Indigenous Storywork (Archibald, 2008). In this paper, we provide further context on the ICRC at SFU Library, the Salish Weave Box Sets, and present the approach, project themes, and lessons learned from the Salish Weave Box Sets: Art and Storytelling Project.

Keywords

• academic libraries
• decolonizing libraries
• Indigenous storywork
• Indigenous librarianship
• Indigenous art
• Indigenous methodologies