Quote:
"[In It Starts With a Whisper, Shelley] Niro successfully conveys that land has a central place in the imagination of a young, urban First Nations woman but also, that that individual maintains her control over land as a space to be imagined. Land, in other words, is not just the receptacle for the imaginings of non-natives, projecting stereotypes about an indigenous and feminine closeness to the land. Niro, through her characterization of Shanna, seizes control of the landscape as an indigenous space."
-- Elizabeth Claire Kalbfleisch

Source:
Kalbfleisch, Elizabeth Claire. "The Testamental Landscape: Framing Homeland in Alanis Obomsawin's Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance." In "Bordering on Feminism: Home and Transnational Sites in Recent Visual Culture and Native Women's Art." PhD diss., University of Rochester, 2009. (p. 104)