Alicia Elliott (Photograph by Alex Jacobs-Blum)It really is the perfect time for Alicia Elliott’s A Mind Spread Out on the Ground to be published. In what the 31-year-old Tuscarora writer calls the Indigenous renaissance, Indigenous artistry has never had so spectacular a presence across Canada’s cultural spectrum. Maliseet composer Jeremy Dutcher took the Polaris Music Prize last year, the third Indigenous winner in five years, while three Indigenous artists have won the annual Sobey Art Award since 2013. Indigenous poets have won the Griffin Prize, one of the richest and most prestigious poetry prizes in the world, three years running. …read more
Source: Macleans
