Nicole Brandsma, University of Alberta

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The Windigo myth and hospitality in the work of three contemporary Canadian authors Joseph Boyden, Tomson Highway, and Rudy Wiebe
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$105,000

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The Windigo myth and hospitality in the work of three contemporary Canadian authors Joseph Boyden, Tomson Highway, and Rudy Wiebe

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011

Principal investigators: Brandsma, Nicole D.

Keywords: windigo; Aboriginal myths; hospitality; ethics; Canadian literature; Aboriginal literature; Canadian identity; north

$105,000

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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