Red Rooms 2008 Storytelling forms the core of

Storytelling forms the core of Dene knowledge-keeping

it is a history not of isolated events closed off from the present but of decolonization as a continuing process

as laid out in the Indian Act

and healing

Excerpts from the Royal Proclamation of 1763

Red Rooms 2008 Storytelling forms the core ofNaomi, an Indigenous chambermaid in a busy downtown hotel, amuses herself by imagining the past, present and future lives of five hotel guests, whom she observed in passing, in the hotel lobby and through relics left in their rooms. Struck by their remains, their footprints and their clues, Naomi patches them together to weave tales of infatuation, love, infidelity, illness, death and family. In Red Rooms, Naomi tells the tales of the young prostitute