Roots -- Battles -- Medicines -- Dreamcatchers. Foreword / by Lee Maracle -- Part 1: Roots. I remember / Nicola Campbell -- 4 reservation food groups / Keesic Douglas -- The place I call home / David Kilabuk -- Home / Zach Medicine Shield, Lia Hart, Julia Shaw, Abigail Whiteye -- To those who bullied me / Tanya Tagaq Gillis -- NDN lady / Martin Sensmeier -- Lakota thunder / Dana Hillestad -- Silenced no more / Isabelle Knockwood -- Leaving home / Priscella Rose -- Indians in the city / Henry Heavy Shield -- Concrete Indians / Nadya Kwandibens -- Part 2: Battles. Growing up with Pocahontas / Kelli Clifton, Alida Kinnie Starr, Charlotte "Skaruianewah" Logan -- What is gender? / Aja Sy -- My reality / Karina Rain Dominguez -- Culture clashes / Tom Greyeyes -- The only place she knows / Tonya-Leah Watts -- Reappropriation / Anthony "Thosh" Collins and Ashley Callingbull -- Hey, Mr. GQ! Building my own runway on the reserve / Christian Allaire -- Indian giving / David Groulx -- Shapeshifter gets a job offer / Courtney Powless -- Super Indian / Arigon Starr -- Stand up and say something / Ryan McMahon -- Poverty / Faith Turner -- Shedding my own skin / Joseph Boyden -- Part 3: Medicines. Watersong / Christi Belcourt -- Why I hunt: hitting the reset button / JP Gladu -- The power of the land / Duke Redbird -- Music is the medicine / Derek Miller -- Opening my eyes... The sun dance changed my life / Chayla Delorme Maracle -- Culture matters / Derek Nepinak -- What gives you strength? / Youth from Horse Lake First Nation -- Sokolum on the small screen / Heather Hill -- Art outside the box / Louie Gong -- The power of sport / Waneek Horn-Miller -- Modern warrior / Bunky Echo-Hawk -- Part 4: Dreamcatchers. Life lessons / Jade Willoughby -- Adventure in art / Ruthie, Sierra, Chamisa and Santana Edd -- Reunited / Sharai Mustatia -- The road to the red carpet / Michelle Thrush -- Tips from the musical trenches / Conlin Delbaere-Sawchuk -- Idle no more / Kelli Clifton, Raquel Simard, Kris Statnyk -- Salish geek / Jeffrey Veregge -- First nation flavor / Aaron Joseph Bear Robe -- Hoop breaking / James Jones -- Grad: just the beginning / Tenille Campbell -- Weaving dreams / Patricia Stein.
Summary:
In a graphics-intensive, magazine-style format, 50 Native/Indian contributors from Canada and the United States present visual art (photography, drawings, paintings), poems, interviews and rememberances to show what it means to be Native/Indian today. Topics range from stereotypes and discrimination to discussions of the contributors' careers in activism, modelling, music, visual arts and more.
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