Review: Fort Edmonton Park’s Indigenous People Experience

By Tom Long, 2022 The Indigenous Peoples Experience at Fort Edmonton Park is everything I want it to be. More to the point, it is everything that the park’s Indigenous partners want it to be.  In November I was lucky enough to visit the IPE on a winter Saturday with my father, brother, and friends.Continue reading “Review: Fort Edmonton Park’s Indigenous People Experience”

Review: A Tale of Three Hills and Two Monuments

Tom Long, 2021 I want to tell you about the three kopjes in South Africa, each with its own museum on top. (You could visit my 2017 travel blog here if you were so inclined). The Voortrekker Monument atop a tall hill (or kopje) caught my eye because of its colonial and “pioneer” narrative andContinue reading “Review: A Tale of Three Hills and Two Monuments”