Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Poetics of Memory
7. Achimo 17
8. Interview with Armand Garnet Ruffo 23
9. Edgework: Indigenous Poetics as Re-placement 31
10. Pauline Passed Here 39
11. Writer–Reader Reciprocity and the Pursuit of Alliance Through Indigenous Poetry 43
12. Remembering the Poetics of Ancient Sound kistêsinâw/ wîsahkêcâhk’s maskihkiy (Elder Brother’s Medicine) 61
13. On Reading Basso 73
14. The Pemmican Eaters 83
15. Cree Poetic Discourse 89
16. Poetics of Place
17. “Bubbling Like a Beating Heart”: Reflections on Nishnaabeg Poetic and Narrative Consciousness 107
18. Getting (Back) to Poetry: A Memoir 121
19. Kwadây Kwańdur—Our Shagóon 137
20. “Pimuteuat/Ils marchent/They Walk”: A Few Observations on Indigenous Poetry and Poetics in French 159
21. Through Iskigamizigan (The Sugar Bush): A Poetics of Decolonization 183
22. The Power of Dirty Waters: Indigenous Poetics 203
23. A Poetics of Place and Apocalypse: Conflict and Contradiction in Poetry of the Red River Resistance and the Northwest Resistance 217
24. My Poem Is an Indian Woman 237
25. Poetics of Performance
26. Interview with Marvin Francis 247
27. Blood Moves with Us—Story Poetry Lives Inside 253
28. Revitalizing Indigenous Swagger: Poetics from a Plains Cree Perspective 259
29. A Conversation of Influence, Tradition, and Indigenous Poetics: An Interview with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm 263
30. The “Nerve of Cree,” the Pulse of Africa: Sound Identities in Cree, Cree-Métis, and Dub Poetries in Canada 271
31. Poetics of Renewal: Indigenous Poetics—Message or Medium? 293
32. Poetics of Medicine
33. Indigenous Poetry and the Oral 305
34. Poems as Healing Bundles 311
35. Small Birds / Songs Out of Silence 321
36. Stretching through Our Watery Sleep: Feminine Narrative Retrieval of cihcipistikwân in Louise Halfe’s The Crooked Good 331
37. “Learning to Listen to a Quiet Way of Telling”: A Study of Cree Counselling Discourse Patterns in Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed 351
38. About the Contributors 371
39. Index 381
40. Books in the Aboriginal Studies Series 403