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Karina Vernon

Karina Vernon researches and teaches Canadian and Black Canadian literature, with a focus on archives and Black-Indigenous relations, among other topics. She is editor of The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology and a forthcoming companion volume, Critical Readings in the Black Prairie Archives. She is the co-editor of Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Works of Art and the Politics of Relation, also forthcoming.

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    In the early 1900s, Canada put out ads to attract white American farmers. Black Indigenous settlers came too

    After ads offering free land were accidentally placed in Black newspapers, Black and multiracial Americans came north. ‘They never expected Black farmers to answer the call,’ author Karina Vernon says.
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    I grew up a Black girl in Alberta without ever hearing of Amber Valley. How does history go missing?

    While students on the Prairies will continue to learn — at least for now — about the history of residential schools, this generation still will not learn that the rich Black history on the Canadian Prairies goes back three centuries. 
    News Canada Calgary