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The alternate realities and imagined futures of speculative fiction provide a rich source of material through which to interrogate our views of history, elucidate our contemporary cultural milieu and chart what we see as possible. This article attends to the politics of Indigenous–Settler relations through an engagement with speculative fiction. Spatially and temporally located in the country now called Canada in the twenty-first century, the work centres on a conversation between the author, a Settler Canadian, and writer, playwright and humourist, Drew Hayden Taylor, from the Curve Lake First Nation. A full transcript of the conversation, edited for length and clarity, is provided. In it, Taylor describes his speculative writing practice and engagement with Indigenous futures. The article concludes with the author's reflection on the process of decolonization, situating engagement in Indigenous futurisms as a step in this process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "Injun" by Jordan Abel is presented. It outlines the decolonization of print, digital, and oral spaces. It examines the discordant layering of fragmented poetry intensified, and the sound of digital malfunction; and responsibility for working towards decolonization. It also mentions that analysis of Canada’s participation in global industry has been promoting the issuing of official apologies advocating forgiveness and reconciliation.

By situating Bernard Assiniwi's book at the colonization-decolonization interface of First Nations, this essay focuses on three main issues: land qua inhabited/imagined geography of the Beothuks; gender as one of the pillars of this geography in pre/postcolonial times; memory as a strategy of justice and decolonization. The objective is to problematize how Assiniwi emancipates la memória sequestrada (Galeano) of the Beothuks by means of a mythopoetics that reveals one of the dark aspects of Canada's bloody past: the genocide of the Beothuks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "Monkey Beach," by Eden Robinson is presented. It highlights the interpretation of the social disintegration and dynamic adaptation caused by compromising new realities. It examines how the traditional Haisla of British Columbia has changed the colonization, industrial development and ecological degradation of the place. It further offers a discussion over the radical change in economic and social realities.