Contents

Preface

I. Oshkabinoojiinh awi

Dadibaajimoowinini, the Storyteller

Redemption

Kwesens Conceives Nanaboozhoo

Windigo Bimose

Sea Smoke on Gichigami

Anjeniwag, the Angels

II. Abinoojiinh awi

Everything You Need to Know in Life You’ll Learn at Boarding School

The Story of Elias and Victoria, His True Love

South Dakota Mission School, 1890

Leaving

Ma at Home

Bemidji

Grandmother at Indian School

The Canticle of the Night

Saint Bernard

Lugalette

Bernadette

Bruneaux

Mary Remembering, on a July Afternoon

Order

Town, As I Recall It

Escape

Chi Ko-ko-koho and the Boarding School Prefect

III. Anishinaabewi

The Refugees

My Dad, Who Treated Life like a Sacrament

The Beanbag

Mewinzhaa, Bijiinaago: Linda and Uncle Ray

The Invisible Child

Miss Shawn

Ann’s Market SALADA TEA

The Class of 1968

Mary Susan

For Asin

Lost and Astigmatic Twenty-Nine-Year-Old Self

IV. Gichi-Anishinaabewi

Loss and a Question

Casualty Days

Ikwe Ishpiming

Parturition, a Poem for Brenda and Terrie

Lisa, Let Us Remember Richard

To the Woman Who Just Bought That Set of Native American Spirituality Dream Interpretation Cards

Nindaaniss Waawaashkeshiikwesens on a Winter Night

Anishinaabikwe–Everywoman

Looking for a Woman with the Blues

Nanaboozhoo

Magdalene in the Shade of Veronica’s Love

E. W. Bohannon, My Grandmother, and Me

Migwechiwendam Ojibwemowin

Migwechiwendam Shaaganashiimowin

Niizhwaasimidana

Migwech

Publication History