Dead White Writer On The Floor Indigenous Methodologies Representing First Peoples at the

Representing First Peoples at the McCord Museum of Canadian History

and Veronica Strong-Boag

which was spent in a residential school

Intellectual and Social Movements

Sibert Informational Book Medal Honor Award and the 2019 Orbis Pictus Honor Award

Dead White Writer On The Floor Indigenous Methodologies Representing First Peoples at theDead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions theatre of the absurd and mystery novels to create one of the funniest and thought provoking plays ever about identity politics. In Act One, six 'savages'; noble, innocent, ignorant, fearless, wise and gay, respectively; find themselves in a locked room with the body of a white writer, which they stash in a closet. None of them can figure out how he died or which of them might have killed