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“This show won’t mean anything unless it comes from ‘the people’”:wâhkôhtowin in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen Movie Treatment

September 14, 2017

By June Scudeler
Abstract:

Using wâkhotôwin or the Cree concept of kinship, I explore the differences between Tomson Highway's (Woods Cree) unpublished movie treatment for the Kiss of the Fur Queen and the published novel version. Both versions are a fictionalised account of Tomson and his brother René's childhood, residential school experiences and careers as artists. Through wâkhôtowin, the brothers, both in the movie treatment and in reality, engage with various communities to create art that exposes residential school abuses and foreground Two-Spirit gay, lesbian, trans and queer (2LGBTQ) rights.

Drama Indigenous Literature
This article ““This show won’t mean anything unless it comes from ‘the people’”:wâhkôhtowin in Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen Movie Treatment” originally appeared in Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Comunity. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 230-231 (Autumn/Winter 2016): 108-122.

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