ABSTRACT
The landscape, composed of cultural, institutional, linguistic, political, economic, and social plotlines, is shaped by and shapes experience over time; lives and landscapes are interwoven. Thinking of landscapes as layered draws attention to the temporality, the unique structures of layering, and of the possibility of changing the landscape layers through gradual processes or abrupt violent processes. Sean's ways of telling who he is and who he is becoming draw us back to thinking about our childhood experiences and makes evident the multiplicity of telling and retellings that might be possible. Sean returns often to his experiences through which he was gifted the name Muskwacicy by Elder Bob Cardinal, a Cree Elder from Alberta. Sean shows the importance of having guides to help us understand and inquire into whom we are in multiple landscapes and how carefully and slowly people need to move into relationships with guides, letting them know us over time and coming to know them over time.
