T his new PhD dissertation from the University of Victoria’s School of Indigenous Governance contains two typos in the first sentence.

The author uses her “intersecting lenses of being a chronically ill neurodivergent Two-Spirit Mississauga Nishnaabe Lucbanin artist and scholar” to convey the importance of “ancestral knowledge encodements” through beadwork.

She claims “colonization” is why we think “body, mind, spirit, land, and material expressions of culture” are separate things.