Not Placed in Their Literature Jeannette C. Armstrong’s Writings of Community Process

• Published in: Postindian Aesthetics p. 22
• Main Author: JANE HALADAY
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: University of Arizona Press 03.05.2022
• ISBN: 0816546274; 9780816546275
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv2c3k193.8

Poet, writer, artist, activist, and Syilx Okanagan knowledge keeper Jeannette Christine Armstrong was born in 1948 on the Penticton Indian Reserve in British Columbia; it is here where her taproot was planted. The Syilx homelands in which her people, their language, and their culture originated inform every aspect of Armstrong’s research, writing, and community work. Currently an associate professor of Indigenous studies and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous philosophy at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan Campus, Armstrong also serves on Canada’s Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Armstrong