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It’s the Dead Indian that destroyed my self-esteem and sense of worth. I would argue this perception was, and is, heavily informed by the same instruments that influenced me. King himself, in The Inconvenient Indian, explains why when he breaks down stereotypical classifications of how Indigenous people were, and are, viewed by Canadians. Within the pages of a book, a comic, on the silver screen, the news, my education was relentless and profoundly damaging. In the 80s and 90s, during my formative years, the world taught me about Indigenous people, of which I was one. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of them writes something like 'I was always impressed as to how well you could draw this' implying that they knew each other before or have now spent some time with each other, when they clearly state that they have never met eachother. It is also Abrams and Dorst's love letter to the written word. Some comments just seem out of place, such as the 'S' that one of them writes. Abrams and written by award-winning novelist Doug Dorst, is the chronicle of two readers finding each other in the margins of a book and enmeshing themselves in a deadly struggle between forces they don't understand. The Readers: Jennifer and Eric, a college senior and a disgraced grad student, both facing crucial decisions about who they are, who they might become, and how much they're willing to trust another person with their passions, hurts and fears. The Writer: Straka, the incendiary and secretive subject of one of the world's greatest mysteries, a revolutionary about whom the world knows nothing apart from the words he wrote and the rumours that swirl around him. Straka, in which a man with no past is shanghaied onto a strange ship with a monstrous crew and launched on a disorienting and perilous journey. The Book: Ship of Theseus, the final novel by a prolific but enigmatic writer named V. 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