Open Mouth: In celebration of the North American Indigenous Youth Games

Artists: Richard Van Camp, Gregory Scofield, Marilyn Dumont and Kevin Paul 

Date: August 7, 1997

Open Space presented a series of readings and discussion by First Nations writers.

Richard Van Camp, Dogrib from Dene nation talked about the consequences of residential school system in Fort Smith. His work, The Lesser Blessed, is a novel about Larry, a 16-year-old Dogrib Bog "who ensudres the assults of his residential school-raised father."

Van Camp is a graduate of Victoria's writing program and winner of the Canadian Author's Association Award for emerging writers, 1997. Other authors include Scofield poet Marilyn Dumont and Victoria's Kevin Paul, who read at Open Space to commemorate the North American Indigenous Games. 

Monday Magazine, August 13, 1997.