A collection of fiction, poetry, essays and creative non-fiction by over 20 Indigenous Canadians, focusing on the effects of colonialism in Canada from both historical and contemporary perspectives.

Includes index.

Foreword / Niigaan James Sinclair -- Super Indians / Richard van Camp -- A prayer for sabe / Rosanna Deerchild -- Ripples of spring raindrops / Herman J. Michell -- An Indigenous mother's theriac / Donna Beyer -- Hands ; Bad words / Tabitha Martens -- The great undoing / Helen Knott -- Ancestors ; Medicine woman / Darla Contois -- Rabbits / Dallas Hunt -- Embers / Gwen Benaway -- How to flag a cab ; A storm day / Danielle Marie Bitz -- Indian giving ; War will not rest ; What does the turtle sing? / David Groulx -- Knowledge is power / Lance Guilbault -- Last syllables / Molly Billows -- Baagak / Jason Bone -- Slam poem / Lana Whiskeyjack -- From salt water people / Karen White -- Rose ; Tonight / List Bird-Wilson -- Dreams / Jana-Rae Yerxa -- A house shared by bees ; The red paper house ; The queer house 1 ; The queer house 2 ; The house filled with buckshot / Sharron Proulx-Turner -- Noble savage ; Eiganwedaang Nibi / Lynne Marie Sherry -- The broken circle / Gina Peters -- Undercover / Waubgeshig Rice -- Aboriginal all-girl's chorus ; Amber Tuccaro's last phone call ; On the decolonization of my heart ; Villanelle for caribou / Shannon Webb-Campbell -- Wild flowers / Kerissa Dickie -- Proclamation ; Human dynamic activity ; Red Earth white lies / Janet Rogers -- Speaking in tongues / Don Robertson -- Koohkoum's story / Beatrice Mosionier.