Contents

Farms and Reservations / DAVID GROULX

Introduction

I. Indians in Your House

In the Cold October Water / DAVID GROULX

Reluctant Believer / MIKE COUCHIE

Danced the Shadows / SHAWN JOHNSTON

Cousin Abbie / PETER COLE

Middle Ground / DAVID G. MCLEOD

upspoken thoughts / rose

On Native Self-Government / ELAINE J. WAGNER

Recipe for an Indian / DAVID GROULX

My Spirit Guide / ELAINE J. WAGNER

Carry On / RAMONA DUBOIS

Dissect Me / MARY LOU CECILE DEBASSIGE

Death / PAMELA ROSE TOULOUSE

Free the Man, Peltier / SKYBLUE MARY MORIN

Department of Indian Affairs / JACQUELINE OKER

Indians in Your House / MIKE COUCHIE

River / ARCHIE TOULOUSE

Tobacco Smoke / ALFRED GROULX

The Naming Ritual / DOLORES WAWIA

II. Old Ways and Memories

A Forgotten Yesterday / JACQUELINE OKER

The River Was the Life / RON COOK

Dancing Winds / BEV MOSES

Grandfather / NOAH C. AUGUSTINE

Taste Some of This! / NOAH C. AUGUSTINE

A Houseful of Memories / NOAH C. AUGUSTINE

Kettles That Boil / DAVID G. MCLEOD

Relies / PETER COLE

Listen / YVONNE STEININGER

Remembrance / YVONNE STEININGER

Love Moccasins / DEBBY DANARD

Inuit Place Names / ANDRE UTTAK

Old Red / ROBERT VITAL

a visitor / rose

Five Voices, Four Generations / FRANK CONIBEAR

The Story of Daybreak Woman / GORD BRUYèRE

Eclipse / GORD BRUYERE

The Competition / ROGER MORIN

How the Northern Lights Came to Be / ROGER MORIN

My Father / RUSSELL WALLACE

Deer Season / KATERI AKIWENZIE-DAMM

Eternal (All That Is) / RANDY THOMPSON

III. Blanket Needs

Blanket Needs / WILLIAM GEORGE

Change Is Upon Us, So Call Me a Dreamer GRAHAM SCOTT ANGUS

In-Cycle-Phobia / CRAIG K. FONTAINE

Starting Last / MIKE COUCHIE

Civilization / DAVID GROULX

Pause for Thought / DAVID MALTBY

Saskairie Romance / SKYBLUE MARY MORIN

Bacchus / RUSSELL TEED

This Is a Reserve / SKYBLUE MARY MORIN

Desperate Moves / BURTON F. AMOS

Oka Sights: Tanks for Everything / MIKE COUCHIE

Two Oka Stories / RUSSELL TEED

The Sometimes Woman / PAMELA ROSE TOULOUSE

Untitled / GLORIA OKEYNAN

The Visitor / PITCHA

Round-About-Way / MARY LOU CECILE DEBASSIGE

Dragged / SHAWN JOHNSTON

The Pain She Feels / NOAH C. AUGUSTINE

After the Cartoons / RUSSELL WALLACE

Song for Ken Turtle / DAVID MALTBY

Finding My Voice / SALLY GAIKEZHEYONGAI

IV. Arrow’s End

To Be Native / JAMES J. JERMEY

Farmington, New Mexico / RUSSELL WALLACE

Goin’ Nowhere, on the Gravy Train / MIKE COUCHIE

Sterility under Fire / PETER COLE

Warrior Cry / DARLA FISHER-ODJIG

Lysol / JACQUELINE OKER

Copy Cats / JACQUELINE OKER

Warblers and Grunts / DAVID GROULX

“We Are People, Just Like You”: The Story of the Lubicon Cree / SUZANNE METHOT

Remember / JACQUELINE OKER

Wolf Dancer / DAVID GROULX

Solidarity, or Once Were Railroad Men / JOEL T. MAKI

Death of a Snow Machine / ALFRED GROULX

A One-Act True Story / DAVID G. MCLEOD

Oak Promises / GAIL HILL-DEVLIN

When Do We Say ... / BEV MOSES

it’s just a game / rose

Sagamok / ARCHIE TOULOUSE

Canada / DAVID GROULX

Our Home and Native Land / KATTIE SEYMORE

Damn Indian / JOHNNY JACOBS

The Merman of Olsen’s Island / ANITA H. OLSEN

The Shock / JACQUELINE OKER

A Letter from St. Nick / DAVID MALTBY

she is reading her blanket with her hands: part iii: things my grandmothers tell me SHARON PROULX TURNER

Warrior Woman / DEB BY DANARD

Prayer / BURTON F. AMOS

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