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Marlene R. AtleoUniversity of Manitoba Re-envisioning, re-claiming, and re-naming: Aboriginal education a requirement for teacher credentials in Manitoba. Teacher candidates in Manitoba are currently required to receive instruction in Aboriginal Education and/or Aboriginal Perspectives to satisfy credentialing requirements set by the Ministry of Education. As an faculty member instructing such a course the challenge is to provide ways and means for both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students to re-envision Manitoba, its history, people, events and achievements to include Aboriginal voices. In this presentation, I illustrate how I use my own Nuu-chah-nulth experience with territory, treaty, culture and formal ritual activity as an orienting lens to work with students to read Manitoba. The orientation is to the landscape, the territory, the history and the present so that they too can see their surround with fresh eyes and a new vision that includes Aboriginal peoples in an integral manner. I employ a strategy of metaphorical mapping to help students learn phenomenological orienteering so that they can further develop their own professional strategies in an ethical and respectful manner as they deal with Aboriginal people, ideas and processes. Teacher candidates are in a unique position to work with Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students to develop new narratives of hope, healing and success in the classroom but they first must understand the field in which they labor to facilitate change. Laurie K. Bertram University of Toronto Edible Ethnicity: The Rise of Vínarterta in Popular Icelandic-Canadian Cultural Expression The Icelandic scholar Jón Karl Helgason once wrote, “If Icelanders are made out of fire and ice, then Icelandic-Canadians are made out of pastry and paste.” This paper traces the role of 20th century pluralism, national defense, and familial commemoration in the rise of vínarterta, a labour intensive seven-layered Iceland