Acknowledgements

I gratefully acknowledge the Canada Council for the Arts, Edmonton Public Library Writer in Residence Program as well as Brandon University’s Aboriginal Writer in Residence Program for the creative time to produce these poems.

Earlier versions of some of these poems have appeared in the following periodicals and anthologies: Exile, Legacy, West Coast Line, Prairie Fire, and Alberta Views.

“Letter to Sir John A. Macdonald” was previously published in A Really Good Brown Girl, Brick Books, 1996.