Citation :
« [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 » , dans Bordering on Feminism: Home and Transnational Sites in Recent Visual Culture and Native Women's Art, 2009. Thèse de doctorat, University of Rochester. (p. 104) [en anglais]