Generated by All in One SEO Pro v5.0.1.1, this is an llms-full.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Kegedonce Press w’daub awae | speaking true ## Posts ### [News & Events](https://kegedonce.com/news/) **Published:** October 16, 2020 **Author:** Pat **Authors:** Pat --- ### [In Loving Memory of Christy Telford](https://kegedonce.com/in-loving-memory-of-christy-telford/) **Published:** August 4, 2026 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** The team at Kegedonce Press deeply mourns the passing of our dear colleague and friend, **Christy Telford** who began her journey on July 23,2026. Christy joined the press in the winter of 2013, bringing with her a wealth of expertise and a lifetime of dedication to financial and artistic administration. As our Administrative Assistant and Bookkeeper, Christy was the backbone of our day-to-day operations, seamlessly blending her talents across financial institutions into the world of publishing. Her warmth, commitment, and strength left an indelible mark on our organization and the broader community in Owen Sound. She will be profoundly missed by the authors, creators, and colleagues whose lives she touched. Christy’s career spanned various financial and artistic sectors—including her valued time with the **Tom Thomson Art Gallery**—but it was her human connection that truly defined her. She was a passionate reader, an advocate, and a mentor who lived a life of significant service. Christy possessed a profound love for literature (her father was also an author) and a deeply generous heart. She dedicated much of her personal time to lifting up and working alongside women striving to overcome life’s obstacles. Christy believed in resilience because she lived it. We extend our deepest condolences to her family, including her loved ones in the region, and hold her memory close in our hearts. Baamaapii dear friend, you will be missed! **Categories:** News --- ### [Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm Receives 2025 Ivy Award for Excellence in Indigenous Publishing](https://kegedonce.com/kateri-akiwenzie-damm-receives-2025-ivy-award-for-excellence-in-indigenous-publishing/) **Published:** October 21, 2025 **Author:** Pat **Excerpt:** Kegedonce Press is proud to announce that our founder, publisher, and art director, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, is the recipient of the 2025 Ivy Award, a prize bestowed upon an individual who has made a substantial contribution to Canadian publishing. **Content:** ## **A Lifetime of Dedication to Indigenous Publishing** Kegedonce Press is proud to announce that our founder, publisher, and art director, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, is the recipient of the 2025 Ivy Award, a prize bestowed upon an individual who has made a substantial contribution to Canadian publishing. The award is given by the International Visitors (IV) Programme and the International Festival of Authors (TIFA) during the 2025 Ivy Award and Conversation at Victoria University at the University of Toronto during TIFA on Wednesday, October 29 at 2:00 p.m. She will be introduced by Kegedonce Press Publishing Manager Renée Abram. “It’s both surprising and affirming,” says Kateri, “to receive recognition for the work that I, and others at Kegedonce Press, have been engaged in for decades to uplift, honour, and celebrate the beautiful literary works of Indigenous authors across Turtle Island.” [**Learn more about Kateri’s journey and the legacy of Kegedonce Press.**](https://kegedonce.com/author/kateri-akiwenzie-damm) **Categories:** News --- ### [Music to Write to: Coltrane Seesequasis's Mixtape](https://kegedonce.com/music-to-write-to-coltrane-seesequasiss-mixtape/) **Published:** August 21, 2025 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** A lot of (most? all?) art is cross-pollinating. Novelists have sough inspiration from music since day one. Here you get a chance to discover — and hear — the music that served as a soundtrack to Coltrane Seesequasis’s creative process while he was writing *The Threads of Time*, which is the second part, after *Secrets of Stone*, of the *A Wolf in the Sun* tetralogy. Check it out right [here](https://alllitup.ca/mixtape-the-threads-of-time/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMS2Q1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF1YmlsVjZ0TDR4MFp5eTZRAR4kwRcXSgDvhW1hK6c0oHquJBUn813oGf74pdiQtezvwnvZTeALyNTsGn0vAA_aem_lL7Zh4vZ7hG80nHh4gAzTg "Coltrane Seesequasis ALU Mixtape")! **Categories:** News --- ### [Just a wee teaser from the spectacular Aurora’s Journey, by Kayla Williams!](https://kegedonce.com/just-a-wee-teaser-from-the-spectacular-auroras-journey-by-kayla-williams/) **Published:** June 10, 2025 **Author:** Pat **Content:** Here young Aurora runs into Mama Nanuk, the polar bear—just one of the many inhabitants of Nunatsiavut she encounters on her travels. If you want to find out what happens, you’ll have to wait till September 27 when *Aurora’s Journey* launches! Folks who follow Kegedonce Press will notice that this release date is a few weeks later than previously announced, and that is because we decided that doing the book as a 22-page softcover edition, in no way, did justice to Kayla’s gorgeous illustrations. So we went with 44 pages in hardcover, which requires a longer production time, and I’m sure you’ll agree that this was the best decision! **Categories:** News --- ### [Congratulations to Kelsey and Cole](https://kegedonce.com/congratulations-to-kelsey-and-cole/) **Published:** May 20, 2025 **Author:** Pat **Excerpt:** Big congratulations are in order to Kelsey and Cole for this achievement. We’ll find out June 21, when the announcements will be made. **Content:** ## FELICITATIONS! We’re coming into May’s home stretch, and the Saugeen Peninsula is aburst with colour and greenery under the Flower Moon. It’s also the time when many awards are announcing their shortlists, and here at Kegedonce we’re smiling ear to ear over the news that Kelsey Borgford and Cole Forrest have been shortlisted for the 2025 Indigenous Voices Award for their moving poetry collection, *[Once the Smudge Is Lit](https://kegedonce.com/books/once-the-smudge-is-lit/ "Once the Smudge is Lit")*! Big congratulations are in order to Kelsey and Cole for this achievement. We’ll find out June 21, when the announcements will be made. For more information, check out **Categories:** News --- ### [In Which We Keep Looking Forward](https://kegedonce.com/in-which-we-keep-looking-forward/) **Published:** February 3, 2025 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Kegedonce Press loves working with new authors. There’s something special about guiding a first book into print, and for the author, there can be no better feeling than breaking through into the publishing world. This year, we are proud to announce the début of author/illustrator Kayla Williams, from Happy Valley, Labrador. Kayla’s thrilling adventure story, *Aurora’s Journey*, comes out with us in August of this year and we couldn’t be more excited. *Aurora’s Journey* is the story of a young Inuk girl who gets separated from her family while on a hunting trip. She must rely on her wits to survive the harsh Arctic conditions – but she must also rely on the North itself, and trust in her ability to live as part of the world around her, at one with the creatures and elements. Her success becomes an inspiration to the members of her community. This book will be sure to keep young and middle readers riveted. It will feature ~10 full colour illustrations by the author. Look for *Aurora’s Journey* to ship in early August! **Categories:** News --- ### [Looking Forward to 2025](https://kegedonce.com/looking-forward-to-2025/) **Published:** December 12, 2024 **Author:** Pat **Excerpt:** As 2024 draws to a close, we are excited to be working with some of your favourite Kegedonce Press authors, who will be launching books with us in the new year. If you’re looking for challenging poetry, stirring YA fantasy, and grounding Traditional stories, we have you covered. **Content:** As 2024 draws to a close, we are excited to be working with some of your favourite Kegedonce Press authors, who will be launching books with us in the new year. If you’re looking for challenging poetry, stirring YA fantasy, and grounding Traditional stories, we have you covered. First, Kegedonce Press poetry perennial **D.A. Lockhart** returns with his latest full-length collection, *Commonwealth*. *Commonwealth* follows the migrations of Indigenous, particularly Lenape, populations in the pre- and post-colonial American Midwest, and uses the patterns and landscapes there to offer a lyric meditation on the Indigenous essence of these spaces and the importance of movement to the human experience. It is a reflective work that will surely inspire much discussion. Next, for those who have been following the thrilling adventures of the wolf Silversong as he ranges through the Northlands pursuing the Heretic in **Coltrane Seesequasis**’s *[Secrets of Stone](https://kegedonce.com/books/secrets-of-stone/ "Secrets of Stone")*, we are happy to announce that we are working on *The Threads of Time*, which is volume two in Coltrane’s projected four-volume series, *A Wolf in the Sun*. This YA fantasy series is already making waves and we are proud to help Coltrane bring it to fruition. We are also busily at work on *The Power of the Little People*, which is the third title in the celebrated Ojibwe History Series by renowned storyteller **Bomgiizhik (Isaac Murdoch)**. This collection gathers stories of encounters with Maymaygwesiwok, the Little People in Anishinaabe culture, and the lessons these beings can impart. As with all the titles in this series, *The Power of the Little People* will be fully bilingual, in English and Anishinaabemowin, making it an invaluable resource – not to mention one that is as enjoyable as it is instructive. Our readers will have all this – and more! – to look forward to this upcoming year. Stay tuned! **Categories:** News --- ### [Author Spotlight for December - Richard Van Camp](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-december-richard-van-camp/) **Published:** November 28, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** As we come to the close of our 30th anniversary year, we shine our final author spotlight on the incomparable Richard Van Camp. Richard, who is a proud Tlicho Dene from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, has published numerous short story collections, novellas, graphic novels, and children’s books. His novel, *The Lesser Blessed,* was made into a feature film in 2012. Way back, he published his very first short story collection with Kegedonce Press. In 2020, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of that collection, *Angel Wing Splash Pattern*, with a [brand-new, redesigned edition](https://kegedonce.com/books/angel-wing-splash-pattern-special-20th-anniversary-edition/). Richard, who also happens to be one of the kindest and most generous people you could meet, sent some of his reflections about *Angel Wing Splash Pattern* (AWSP). Here is what he had to say. “AWSP was my second book \[after *The Lesser Blessed*\]. I have 28 now out in the world. “I think “My Fifth Step” from *Angel Wing Splash Pattern* is the one story that people still thank me for because we rarely talk about men’s healing and male grief in Indigenous Literature and it’s all there: in that short story. Most of my graphic novels deal with healing and I often return to that sense of self discovery when I work on graphic novels. It’s so interesting to me, that out of all the genres I work in, it’s my illustrated work where I feel safest welcoming that healing in my characters, but I think that was the first short story where I risked something difficult to put into the spoken word or even in dialogue, and I returned with something beautiful that still touches everyone who reads it. “Brutus and company in “Let’s Beat The Shit Out of Herman Rosko!” first appear in AWSP and they’ve gone on to high adventure together in stories like “Children of the Sundance” and “Dogrib Midnight Runners” in my other short story collections. “I’m so proud that we published the comic “Mermaids”, illustrated by the maestro Scott Henderson, in the 20th anniversary of *Angel Wing Splash Pattern*. Scott nailed the tone and ferocity of Torchy and I have been so blessed work with Scott on our graphic novel series The Spirit of Denendeh: Volume 1: *A Blanket of Butterflies* and Volume 2: *As I Enfold You in Petals* (with HighWater Press), but it’s here, in “Mermaids”, the comic, in AWSP where you get a first look at Torchy and Sfen as illustrated characters. “As I put the finishing touches of my new short story, “Mouthless”, for the upcoming Kegedonce horror anthology, I think of all of the horror I’ve written in my short stories: all the Wheetago War stories, all the human horror stories, all the spiritual horror stories. My goodness. You can actually read my very first spiritual horror short story in AWSP: “Snow White Nothing For Miles” (Yes, lyrics from the Sisters of Mercy song “Driven Like the Snow” from their Floodland album). “It seems to me now, looking back, AWSP was a garden and a testing ground for where my writing was destined to go: in every genre, using many voices, experimenting with voice and structure, and a lifelong willingness to welcome the sweetest slow motion lightning strike because that’s what it feels like when a story chooses me.” Mahsi Cho, Richard! > [Home](https://richardvancamp.com/) **Categories:** News **Tags:** Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Northern Canada, Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp --- ### [Author spotlight for October: Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-october/) **Published:** September 28, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, author of *[Wrist](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/wrist/)* and *[Ghost Lake](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/)* (Kegedonce Press) and co-editor of *Bawaajigan ~ Stories of Power*, a dream-themed anthology of Indigenous writers (Exile Editions). He is an artist and filmmaker who works in a variety of mediums including audio and video, and drawing and painting. His writing is published in various magazines, blogs, and anthologies. He is two-spirit, Jewish, Anishinaabe, and member of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation. In 2021, his collection of horror/mystery stories, *Ghost Lake* won the Indigenous Voices award for Published Fiction. Originally from Ontario, Nathan currently resides in Vancouver where he teaches creative writing at Kwantlen University. We caught up with Nathan to chat with him about his writing, his inspirations, and what he’s been up to lately. Here is our conversation. **Kegedonce Press:** What draws you to writing horror, mystery and thriller stories? Where do you find inspiration? **Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler**: I think for me the appeal of horror isn’t necessarily about an exploration of fear, although that’s supposed to be what the horror genre is about: fear, shock, and disgust. Instead for me, I feel like my approach to Horror comes from more of a Gothic aesthetic? An aesthetic that finds beauty or comfort in places or ideas or moods that most people find repulsive, morbid, disturbing or depressing; for me those things can actually be cathartic, soothing, or fun, enjoying the chaos and danger of a thunderstorm, or relishing in a gloomy rainy day or a sad song. Rooting for the underdog, monster, or bad guy in a movie. The gore even, as long as it’s not real right. The flip side is reality, sometimes the depressing reality of mortality or cruelty–whatever it is– facing that reality head-on can also be comforting somehow? Like “Yep that’s the way it is” to remind yourself some things are outside your control, so it’s not worth worrying and being anxious about it if you keep being sort of dead-pan and matter a fact about a harsh reality, right? So maybe finding humour or embracing that as an aesthetic in some way is also about fear too, disarming it pre-emptively. You have no power here, I already know. Nothing can surprise me see, no rose-coloured glasses here, no illusions. Mystery and thriller are sort of adjacent genres. Mystery is about the unknown, and unravelling those mysteries until their inevitable conclusion, in most mystery genre narratives: you know the mystery will be solved, the killer will be caught, you just have to hang on till the end (it’s about when and how the answers will be revealed) and the feelings of suspense you experience until you find out the answers. And those are sort of the genre conventions I’ve played with in my own forays into the mystery genre, sort of challenging them by not following the conventions because they don’t exactly reflect reality most of the time. So I upended it. The Thriller genre is sort of similar in that the primary draw through the narrative is about suspense, about what’s going to happen, about the unknown, except here the fear is usually supposed to be something real-world rather than supernatural in nature, something that could actually happen: kidnapping, espionage, murder. But sometimes the supernatural make great metaphors for the real world. What better way to talk about corporate greed than vampires that literally suck the life out of you? And sometimes, reality is so much more horrific than making up some supernatural threat, there are enough real-world threats that are just as terrifying and cruel as any supernatural monster in a horror movie. So thriller. The real monster isn’t supernatural. So inspiration: I get a lot of inspiration from family history, other times it comes from the land, thinking about a certain place, and the history of that place. Sometimes I want to tackle a certain idea, or I’m processing something through the lens of a creative story, working through an idea or concept, and looking at it from different angles on the page. And I set out to do that pretty intentionally sometimes. Other times it’s just sort of been brewing in the background of my subconscious for years before it’s finally ready to come out. It might only take a week to sit down and write that rough draft of the story, but really it’s been fermenting for ten years. So how long did it actually take to write? Like a rock tumbler—maybe that a good metaphor?—that rock has been spinning around in there for a while now, getting washed around, so when it finally emerges it’s shiny and slick with hardly any rough edges. Other times, *wham!* Lightning strikes and you just start writing, who knows where that idea comes from? That character is just in your head and telling you their story, so you better write it down. Beach glass. **KP:** What, in your view, are the best elements of good writing? **NNA:** Hrrrm. Geez. Umm. Errr. I tend to get stuck on certain authors. I don’t know if the series or authors or books I like to read always necessarily qualify as good writing. What’s wrong with bad writing? Aside from some obvious cringe factors. I mean, people like all kinds of crappy things. Does it matter as long as they are enjoying it? As long as it’s doing the thing stories are supposed to do? As long as it isn’t pissing me off by being problematic. Does it matter if it’s high art? I like stories, I like art. I don’t always want high-brow stuff, and I don’t always want beautifully crafted dense poetic writing either, but sometimes I do. What makes good writing? What makes good art? Not an easy question. But for me I usually fall in love with the characters. If I like the characters, I’ll be hooked. Even if the writing is bad, (predictable, repetitive, clichéd, over-dramatic) I can look past that if at least the characters are interesting. **KP:** When you begin writing a story, what comes to you first: plot, character, setting? Something else? **NNA:** It depends on the story really. Sometimes I’ll start off with a setting, or a character as a prompt and build out organically from there, and just see where the story goes, who the character is, why they are in the place they’re at, and once one choice is made, this inevitably raises other questions, what they’re doing there, what do they want, who are they looking for etc. etc. … so follow the trail of questions, and slowly answer each one until the story is finished. The organic story process is sort of fun, because then even you as the writer don’t know where the story is going until it gets there, you have to finish writing it to find out. At some point you generally figure out where it’s going before you get to the end, sort of like fumbling around in an unfamiliar dark room searching for the light-switch, you follow the wall by touch, feel the texture of the horizontal stripe wallpaper, encounter each piece of furniture one at a time, the softness of the plush velvet couch, the tough-woven fabric of a sitting chair, stub your toe on the coffee table, bash your knee on the end table, almost knock over the floor lamp, trip over the place where the cold stone tile gives-way to carpet under your bare feet, until you get a sense of the shape of the room, what kind of room it is, and by the time you hit the light-switch you already know where you are. **KP:** What are you working on now? Do you have any other books or stories in the works? **NNA:** I just finished writing another short story featuring Zaude, a character from *Ghost Lake* who had three stories in that collection, I wanted to keep writing to see where her thread would lead, and flesh out her character a bit more. The last story in that book felt a bit open-ended, like there was more to the story, so I wanted to see what would happen next. I was thinking it might be a good fit for that Horror anthology Kegedonce is planning, but I’m not sure it ended up being scary enough, so I might have to write another one. Something more scary. I’ve also been teaching Creative Writing at Kwantlen University, so that’s been a lot of work: course planning, lesson planning, teaching, grading, service work. I’m pretty new to the University structure, at least from the faculty side of things, so I’ve had to spend time thinking about teaching methods and philosophy, and that’s also taken up a bunch of time from my creative work. Though it is pretty awesome to be able to help others tell their stories too. As for my writing and other creative work: I have an unfinished graphic novel I really need to finish working on, an unfinished Y/A novel, an unfinished novel. And an unfinished documentary that needs to be completed. So lots of projects to work on! **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabemowin, book sale, horror, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, mystery, Ojibwe, thriller --- ### [Author Spotlight for September: Albert Dumont](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-september-albert-dumont/) **Published:** September 1, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Albert Dumont is Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, and has dedicated his life to promoting Indigenous spirituality and healing and to protecting the rights of Indigenous Peoples, particularly the young. He is a Spiritual Advisor and since October 2016 he has been serving his community as one of 13 Elders on the Elders Advisory Committee of the Ministry of the Attorney General. In recognition for his work as an activist and volunteer on his ancestral lands (Ottawa and Region) Albert was presented with a Human Rights Award by the Public Service Alliance of Canada in 2010. In January 2017 he received the DreamKEEPERS Citation for Outstanding Leadership. From 2021 to 2023 Albert was the English-language Poet Laureate for Ottawa. In 2022, Albert was invited to speak at the national commemorative service in honour of Queen Elizabeth II shortly after the monarch’s death. As is his way, he took this opportunity to offer some [meaningful reflections](https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/indigenous-spiritual-adviser-and-poet-comments-on-monarchy-s-legacy-ahead-of-tribute-to-queen-1.6073862) on the monarchy and colonialism in Canada. You can find more of Albert’s thoughtful and moving writings [on his website](http://albertdumont.com/). In 2018, Albert published *[Sitting by the Rapids](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/sitting-by-the-rapids/)* with Kegedonce Press. The book is a deeply personal, deeply emotional poetry collection resonant with an Elder’s wise reflections on healing from addiction, facing the ongoing effects of colonialism, and connecting with the profound spirituality of his people. Albert writes of S*itting by the Rapids*: “The ancestors, living at the time of European contact had a way with words. Poetry spilled effortlessly from their lips because the spirit of the land guided their words. I take seriously my belief that medicine of extraordinary healing power is found in the verses of a poet who puts words together for the purpose of bringing peace and serenity to people in want of it. The counsels and poetry of a person living with pain are special and more meaningful to an individual in the throes of heartache.” Maria Campbell, celebrated author of *Halfbreed*, writes of *Sitting by the Rapids*, “These gentle words full of love and powerful energy are like Albert himself. They encourage and guide the way for all who read them and are prepared to move on.” The striking cover art for *[Sitting by the Rapids](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/sitting-by-the-rapids/)* is by Catherine Dallaire. ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/rapids-cover-smaller-150x150.jpg "rapids-cover-smaller - Kegedonce Press")You can find a full list of Albert Dumont’s books [on his website](http://albertdumont.com/books/). Albert reads poems from *Sitting by the Rapids* on our [Kegedonce Press YouTube Channel:](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4MjIgYTKjUGfTad59-rUBA) **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabe, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Ottawa author, Poetry --- ### [Author Spotlight for August: NShannacappo.](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-august-nshannacappo/) **Published:** July 27, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** NShannacappo is a Nakawe author, poet, illustrator and graphic artist. He currently lives in Ottawa where he illustrates graphic novels, both his own and for other authors, and writes poetry. He published his debut solo-authored graphic novel, [*The Krillian Key: Salamander Run* ](https://kegedonce.com/books/graphic-novel-comics/the-krillian-key/)with Kegedonce Press in 2020 and his debut poetry collection, *[Through the Eyes of Asunder ](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/through-the-eyes-of-asunder/)*with us in 2022. For our August Author Spotlight, we caught up with Shannacappo, who reflects on his various inspirations filtered through the lens of a 60s Scoop survivor, strong female characters, the disturbing reality of AI, and on his work process as a stay-at-home Dad. **Kegedonce Press:** *What are you working on currently? Have you any plans for other poetry collections or graphic novels?* **NShannacappo:** I’m illustrating a graphic novelization of book “Land-Water-Sky / Nde-Ti-Yat’a” by Dene author Katłįà. The book is about a shapeshifters and takes place both in pre-colonial times and present day. This takes up the bulk of my time, and it’s been a pretty big challenge to pull off as it’s my first time changing a novel into a graphic novel. At this point I think it’ll end up being at least three books. I’ve been putting together a second book of poetry in my spare time, no title yet, and I’m still working on figuring out a theme for it. Rolling around the idea of fantastical protest poetry on some of the things that I’m known to stand up for. For other graphic novels that I’m working on, *The Krillian Key volume 2*, I’m about halfway through that and it picks up with Julian Savek’s story where more of the alien/human hybrid’s history is revealed. After that we’ll catch up with Salamander and Savannah, he’s still on the run, this time they’ll be getting help from a variety of Indigenous underworld figures as he figures out how to get off the planet and save his fiancé. I’m in the editing stage of a graphic novel based on the “Navriss” poems called *Navriss*. That book tells the story of a person that died, wakes up in the afterlife standing over their grave with only a memory of having been loved. They set out to find out who they were and who loved them along the way they’re joined by a Spirit Guide that takes on many different shapes to help him remember. **KP:** *What has been your most unlikely source of inspiration, either for poetry or graphic arts or both?* **NS:** Well, these didn’t start out as inspirations, but they have grown to become major sources as I’ve grown older and learned more about Indigenous history. I grew up and was taken from my birth family in the 60s Scoop which meant, among other things, that I didn’t grow up with my cultural teachings, history and lost my language. Consequently when I started drawing, my inspirations were from colonial heroes and literary figures ranging from Greek mythology, to X-Men, and *Savage Sword of Conan* comic books as well as from movies. John Woo’s *Hardboiled* (and most of his movies) for it’s frenetic ballet of gun battles, that showed so much detail, and that influence can be seen in the battle between Vladimir and Black Lotus in the hallway of *[The Krillian Key: Salamander Run](https://kegedonce.com/books/graphic-novel-comics/the-krillian-key/)*. *Dragon Ball Z* and their long, drawn out action sequences, with bits of chatting after they warm up. The *Myth* Adventure series of books by Robert Asprin, with their copious amounts of witty banter, also Mulder and Scully for their back and forth, and for her being a strong, intelligent women who was complimented by her male partner, but not reliant on him; she held her own and was his equal. *La Femme Nikita* the movie where Nikita was just as capable of being an action hero as any male, as well as having a range of motivations and complicated history, she was a developed person in a genre of films where women were mostly victims and/or eye candy. The fantastical sci-fi of the *Split Infinity* series by Piers Anthony and the darkness of Jack L. Chalker’s *Demons at Rainbow Bridge* of the Quintara Marathon series. *Dance Me Outside;* that film showed me that my people could be in movies and tell our own stories. *Smoke Signals* did the same, but that one also captured my heart in a masterfully portrayed relationship between Victor and Thomas. I wanted to be part of that, and Salamander became more clearly Indigenous because of those films. I think though the way Marvel and DC have handled Indigenous people and their superheroes was a major motivation for wanting to have a superhero that was Nish and not a caricature of an Indigenous person. Like why do all Indigenous superheroes have nature-based powers and costumes and why are they always background characters, or angry with a big chip on their shoulder? I don’t like the answers for those questions because they aren’t feel-good responses. So taking control of the Indigenous narrative is a major inspiration to me these days and I enjoy the challenge of showing off our cultures and people, especially when I can show them without a colonial lens as I get to do in *Land-Water-Sky* and to some extent in *The Krillian Key*. In poetry I get to talk about our struggles in a way that I hope evokes understanding and compassion as well as an appreciation for the spirit of our people who are surviving a continued genocide, and just as importantly inspire others to stand with us in ending said genocide. **KP:** *What do you find either limiting or liberating about telling a story through either poetry or graphic arts?* **NS:** Hmm, limiting in poetry and graphic art? Avoiding using the “poetic voice” that people fall into when reading poems out loud. I find it very suffocating to hear every poem read in that voice using the spoken word cadence. I think it really takes away from the power of poetry when it’s used, and that each poem should have their own flow and rhythm, that compliments and empowers the message. When I write poems it’s very much a conscious direction to avoid phrases, words and overall rhythm that could lead anyone to read in that “poetic voice.” Also poetic styles in general, their rules and regulations, even what Free Verse needs to look like, when all I want to do is write something that captivates your soul and frees your mind to travel down this meandering stream with me. As for Graphic Art, I find the inception of AI really bothersome and insulting on many levels. For instance Disney+ used AI to generate the animation for their TV show *Secret Invasion* … telling every single one of us \[artists\] they are unwilling to pay us for our creativity and that we’re irrelevant. They can afford to pay artists as they are one of the richest entertainment companies around. Reading about that kind of thing takes the sails out of you and makes you pause. It’s already hard enough to make a living at this, there’s no salary with or without benefits for writers, poets, artists (unless you work directly for a company) and most of the time we don’t make a living wage doing what we love; we work part-time jobs, full-time jobs to make ends meet. I don’t mind having to do that, I mean yeah it sucks and I wish I could just do graphic novels and poetry for a living and then some, but I accepted life would be this way. That I would have to make many sacrifices in order to get my work out there, what I didn’t expect and don’t accept is AI replacing artists. Using AI for professional grade work, means as a company, or executive you’ve literally agreed to take food off the table of the working graphic artist. Now on a more personal level when it comes to graphic novels and illustration what I find challenging is finding the time to do the work. I’m a stay-at-home father and days and evenings are given to raising our daughter, making sure she gets outside, fed, eats healthy food, learns something everyday, and gets to be a child without worry about being cared for, listened to, seen, and most importantly loved. It’s only been lately that she allows me to work in the day time, and I still work best at night when she’s sleeping, and when my wife is sleeping. The house is quiet, a cat sits next to me asleep or watching over me and I’ve got a movie playing on the TV and Spotify blasting metal on my headphones and a video game passively playing on my phone, text on the computer telling me what I’m supposed to draw. Dawn rolls around and I’m still working most nights, then I go to sleep on my own, but sometimes my daughter groggily comes to get me and remind me that I need to take care of myself and get some sleep. I don’t want to miss out on her life or the life I share with my wife, I had a bunch of heart attacks two years ago, and was dying, would have died if I waited to go to the ER. Motivation to draw and spend time working instead of playing with my daughter, or going for a walk with her, or listening to her endless stories that’s what I find most challenging these days. In the multiverse there’s a reality, very close to this one, where I wasn’t here for her birthday. I always wanted to be two things for as long as I can remember and those were to be a comic book illustrator (I do graphic novels), and be a father, and not a shitty half-ass father either, instead I want to be remembered as one of the greats. Especially by my daughter so when I’m gone, she’s got no doubts that I loved her, and she has the security that comes with knowing that. So I pause drawing more often than I should, my work comes slower now, but I believe that when I work it’s all the more rich for the time spent with her. The artwork and the poetry, those aren’t challenging to me, I can draw anything I can imagine or remember or see, and the same is true for my poetry. I can take you the reader anywhere, to any time and any place and make you live there for a while then bring you home. Those things, the art of it all is easy. It’s everything around those moments I lose myself in the art that are limiting and yet so liberating because I have people in my life that understand this is how I breathe, and they give me space. Read more about NShannacappo’s books at: [Open Book:](https://open-book.ca/News/June-Writer-in-Residence-NShannacappo-on-Rhythm-Flow-and-Writing-More-than-1500-Poems) interview about *Through the Eyes of Asunder* [All Lit Up](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Off-Kilter2/2022/Off-Kilter-Interview-with-Poet-Neal-Shannacappo): “Off-Kilter” feature interview with NShannacappo [All Lit Up](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2023/Try-Poetry-Through-the-Eyes-of-Asunder-Neal-Shannacappo): feature of *Through the Eyes of Asunder* [All Lit Up](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Character-Study/2020/Character-Study-The-Krillian-Key-Salamander-Run): feature of *The Krillian Key: Salamander Run* [Open Book](https://open-book.ca/Writer-in-Residence/Archives/NShannacappo/I-Love-it-When-a-Plan-Comes-Together): NShannacappo writer-in-residence post **Categories:** News **Tags:** book sale, graphic novels, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Ojibwe, Ottawa author, Poetry --- ### [Author Spotlight for July: Sharon King](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-july-sharon-king/) **Published:** July 4, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Sharon King, the author and illustrator of the award-winning children’s board book, *[Amik](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/amik/)* (2021), is from the Wasauksing First Nation near Parry Sound. She is an author, performer, and producer, and works as an educator at Wausauksing. In 1999, King was nominated for a Juno Award as part of the Indigenous women’s vocal group, Hearts of the Nations, in the category Best Music of Aboriginal \[sic\] Canada Recording. In 2022, King’s bilingual children’s board book, *[Amik](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/amik/),* won the bronze medal in the IPPY Awards for Best Regional Fiction, Canada East. It was also shortlisted for the Indigenous Voices Award and longlisted for the First Nation Communities Read Award. *Amik* is the story of a beaver (amik in Ojibwe / Anishinaabemowin) who is busy building a dam, while numerous other creatures go about their business around him. It is a story about nature and the environment and the interconnections between living beings. The story is told in both image and text. King’s cut-paper collage work is vibrantly colourful, and the use of tissue paper in the collage provides a unique transparency to some of the images. The words of the story appear first in Anishinaabemowin, followed by the English translation. In addition to being an engaging and educational book for young children—in board-book format for young hands to play with—it can also be a valuable language-learning resource for older readers as well. As part of Kegedonce Press’s 30th anniversary celebrations in 2023, [Amik is our July Indigenous Languages feature title, and is on sale until July 31. ](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/amik/) Read more about Sharon King’s book, *Amik* in these great online articles: [Open Book](https://open-book.ca/index.php/News/Sharon-King-on-How-Her-Beautiful-New-Picture-Book-Can-Support-Learners-of-the-Ojibwe-Language) [All Lit Up](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Beautiful-Books/2022/Beautiful-Books-Amik?fbclid=IwAR2weYoV0zvbxnRy4DyGVdMlAUrCEY_I0y7g5bERCrQ2Lw0qwWCedJwbYRQ) [Anishinabek News](https://anishinabeknews.ca/2022/04/04/book-review-amik/) [Muskrat Magazine](https://muskratmagazine.com/amik-by-sharon-king/?fbclid=IwAR09utCcHtUtXCAwm79tku2au0ibQ21-dllb_jTMkBX_A13AGP_DjxQtoGs) **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabemowin, book sale, children's books, children's lit, Indigenous, languages, Ojibwe --- ### [Author Spotlight for June: Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-june-bomgiizhik-isaac-murdoch/) **Published:** June 1, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch is a man of many roles and many talents. He is from the Nimkii Aazhibikoong First Nation and is Ojibwe of the Fish Clan. He is an artist, [storyteller](https://www.youtube.com/@isaacmurdoch3160), singer-songwriter, activist, author, [public speaker](https://speakerscanada.com/keynote-speaker/isaac-murdoch/), and knowledge keeper. He currently lives in the forest at Nimkii Aazhibikoong, an Indigenous community that focuses on Indigenous language, art, and land-based activities. He was blessed with the ability to grow up in a traditional setting, living by hunting and gathering on the land. Many of the stories he tells become sources for his artworks, which have become recognized worldwide—most notably his Thunderbird Woman and Water is Life paintings. Murdoch dedicates earnings from selling his artwork and his books to the [Onaman Collective](http://onamancollective.com/), an arts initiative that supports youth language and culture learning. Kegedonce Press has published the first two books of Murdoch’s Ojibwe History Series, collections of Ojibwe stories. *[The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/the-trail-of-nenaboozhoo-and-other-creation-stories/)* (2019) has several of its chapters translated into Anishinaabemowin. Its beautiful colour illustrations are by Murdoch and renowned Michif artist [Christi Belcourt](https://christibelcourt.ca/pages/art-practice). The second book, *[Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/serpents-and-other-spiritual-beings/)* (2022) is fully bilingual, with translations by Patricia BigGeorge and more of Murdoch’s stunning pictograph-style illustrations. In the books’ pages, the Anishinaabemowin and English are carefully lined up on facing pages to assist with language learning. The stories of Murdoch’s Ojibwe History Series were, like the language itself, originally orally transmitted. Those published in his books are transcribed from recordings of his oral storytelling. The books carefully preserve the style and cadence of the storyteller’s voice. Murdoch himself learned the stories by oral transmission, from Elders passing on their knowledge. But it wasn’t a simple process. Murdoch explains what it means to be a traditional story-keeper: “As a storyteller, a lot of the stories, they’re earned. They’re not given to you freely. So you have to I guess show mature behaviour, you have to follow the red path, you have to be able to demonstrate integrity and respect amongst your people. And often times a payment is made for the story. So a gift would be made for that knowledge. When you’re fasting and when you’re attending ceremonies and those types of things, then you’re proving yourself to be able to carry those stories for the people. So that’s all part of understanding the story. I also have to feast the stories as well all the time. The stories are nourished by feast plates, by putting food in the fire for them. So that they’re able to be strong and that they have the strength and endurance to be able to continue to help our people for so long. So we feast them, and we nourish the stories and all of the spirits that we talk about in the stories so that they’re able to continue to help our people through this challenging time. We need them more than ever.” Murdoch points out that, to many Ojibwe, the stories of *[The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/the-trail-of-nenaboozhoo-and-other-creation-stories/)* and *[Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/serpents-and-other-spiritual-beings/)* are historical in the same way scripture is historical to believers of other faiths. And, just as importantly, the stories themselves are a vital aspect of Ojibwe history—their transmission, their preservation, the sharing of them among the people. This is why Murdoch’s book series is called The Ojibwe History Series. Volumes 1 and 2 are only the beginning: Murdoch has plans for several more books to come. Read more about Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch’s books in the following articles: [Review of *The Trail of Nenaboozhoo*](https://laratracehentz.wordpress.com/2019/11/01/guest-post-the-trail-of-nenaboozhoo-and-other-creation-stories/) [All Lit Up feature article of *The Trail of Nenaboozhoo*](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Beautiful-Books/2019/Beautiful-Books-The-Trail-of-Nenaboozhoo) [Review of *Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings*](https://anishinabeknews.ca/2022/12/30/book-review-the-serpents-and-other-spiritual-beings-ojibwe-history-series-vol-2/) [Open Book feature article of *Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings*](https://open-book.ca/News/Read-an-Excerpt-from-Ojibwe-storyteller-Bomgiizhik-Isaac-Murdoch-s-Collection-Serpents-and-Other-Spiritual-Beings) [All Lit Up feature article of *Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings*](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2022/An-Interview-with-Bomgiizhik-Isaac-Murdoch?fbclid=IwAR3ChqjoasvW3TB02dMxIosWHGL5k9hLSJYiHrDM0hXtZ8AuMOmqVDX9A3g) **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabemowin, book sale, Indigenous, Ojibwe stories --- ### [Author Spotlight for May: Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-may-christine-miskonoodinkwe-smith/) **Published:** May 1, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** When Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith came to Kegedonce Press with her proposal for a memoir-style essay collection about the Sixties Scoop, we knew that these were important stories, stories that needed to be told. *[These are the Stories: Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/these-are-the-stories-memories-of-a-60s-scoop-survivor/)* is a heartbreaking yet hopeful account of her experiences as a Sixties Scoop survivor. Through writing, through telling her stories, she has forged her own path to healing and connected with a community of other survivors. “I am an adult now,” she writes, “and far away from those who hurt me. I rebuilt my life and I have surrounded myself with people who believe in me and encourage me to not only keep up the fight but to stay strong. Today, I am alive, and I am strong because I am a survivor. I am a survivor in a sea of thousands of other First Nations children who were forced into the child welfare system through no fault of their own. I know that I am not alone” (from “You are not wanted” in *These are the Stories*). After the release of *[These are the Stories](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/these-are-the-stories-memories-of-a-60s-scoop-survivor/)*, Christine approached us with another proposal: this time for an edited collection of personal essays by other survivors from across the nation. *[Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/silence-to-strength-writings-and-reflections-on-the-sixties-scoop/)* gathers those stories into an anthology of powerful and eye-opening first-person accounts from survivors of forced, sometimes even illegal adoption. Opening with a poem by Tyler Pennock, author of the award-winning *Bones*, *Silence to Strength* unfolds stories of disruption from loss of family and culture, but also stories of strength and survivance. *Silence to Strength* has been nominated for two [Eric Hoffer awards](https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-prizes.html), the Da Vinci Eye and the Montaigne Medal. We caught up with Christine to have a chat about her books and what she is doing now. Here’s our conversation: **Kegedonce Press:** What do you think has changed, personally or more generally, now that your books are out there in the world? **Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith:** Initially when I got my memoir *These Are the Stories* published, I thought that I might stop there, but I love writing and innately knew that I couldn’t stop at just one book. With Kegedonce Press giving me the platform to get my stories out there, it awakened the writer in me even more. I always had other survivors of the 60s Scoop in my thoughts and felt that offering them a platform to write would also be good. Hence, *Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop* was born. Getting my books out into the world has been nothing short of amazing for me. It has given me a renewed sense of purpose in writing what I feel are integral issues for mainstream media to understand. Sometimes writing about certain issues can be difficult and can be possibly draining but personally it has been cathartic sitting down and getting what I care about the most out into the world. Since my books have come out, I’ve been getting more recognition and speaking gigs. Though I’m quite shy around things like public speaking, it is teaching me new skills—it helps me get my voice out there more and it also in a sense helps my social anxiety because by having my books out there and having my actual voice heard, it teaches me that what every writer needs to know—their stories are important and need to be out there. **KP:** Who do you hope will read *These Are the Stories* and *Silence to Strength* and what do you hope they will get out of them? **CMS:** I am hoping that the mainstream media and public will read both my books. It is important for them to read about the issues that affect First Nations/Inuit/Metis people and what has happened in Canadian history so that they can be better informed of where we come from as a people. I don’t ask people to feel sorry for us, but I do ask that they try to make an effort to understand the policies that have impacted us, and how we are all trying to rise above the obstacles that have been put in place by the Canadian government. Reconciliation or a modicum of it cannot happen unless everyone makes an effort to understand and listen to what the First Peoples of Canada have encountered and come together to erase the stigmas surrounding us. **KP:** What new writing or other projects are you working on? **CMS:** I never have just one project on the go, that’s just how I am! I am working on a Young Adult novel for James Lorimer Press, a poetry manuscript tentatively titled *Fragments from a Healing Heart* and the last two anthologies of three with Exile Editions and fellow friend/author and co-editor Nathan Niigaan Noodin Adler. You can r**ead more about *These are the Stories* and *Silence to Strength* at the following links:** [All Lit Up on *Silence to Strength*](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Under-the-Cover/2022/Under-the-Cover-Amplifying-the-Stories-of-60s-Scoop-Survivors) [Open book on *These are the Stories*](https://open-book.ca/News/Where-is-Home-Christine-Miskonoodinkwe-Smith-Processes-the-Trauma-of-the-Sixties-Scoop-in-Her-Courageous-Powerful-Memoir) [Open book on *Silence to Strength*](https://open-book.ca/News/I-Had-Never-Heard-His-Voice-and-Yet-I-Knew-it-Right-Away-Read-an-Excerpt-from-Silence-to-Strength-Writings-and-Reflections-on-the-Sixties-Scoop) **Categories:** News **Tags:** Canada, essay collection, history, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Sixties Scoop --- ### [Author Spotlight for April: D.A. Lockhart](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-april-d-a-lockhart/) **Published:** March 31, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** For April, National Poetry Month, we shine the spotlight on D.A. Lockhart, author of multiple poetry collections and the award winning short story collection *Breaking Right: Stories*. His work has been shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award, Indiana Author’s Awards, First Nations Communities READ Award, and has been a finalist for the ReLit Award. Lockhart is pùkuwànkoamimëns, Turtle Clan, of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation and currently resides at Waawiiyaatanong and Pelee Island where he is the publisher at Urban Farmhouse Press. Last fall, the Ontario Arts Council awarded Lockhart an Indigenous arts project grant to support his forthcoming work, *Commonwealth*. Lockhart’s writings frequently explore themes of decolonization and reconciliation. In 2021, Kegedonce Press published D.A. Lockhart’s eighth poetry collection, [*Go Down Odawa Way*](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/), a poetic journey into the physical, historical and cultural landscapes of Waawiiyaatanong (Windsor, ON to Detroit, MI), the territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. *Go Down Odawa Way* was shortlisted for the 2022 First Nations Communities READ competition. In an interview with [Open Book](https://open-book.ca/News/Acclaimed-Poet-D.A.-Lockhart-on-Taxidermied-Iguanas-Poetry-Shipbreakers-and-the-Importance-of-Endings), Lockhart reflects on his writing process, on endings, and on a taxidermied iguana that became the inspiration for one of the poems in *Go Down Odawa Way* (below). This year, we are excited to be publishing Lockhart’s ninth poetry collection, *North of Middle Island*. The book is set in the natural and constructed landscapes of Pelee Island, the southernmost inhabited point in Canada (the uninhabited Middle Island of the title is the actual southernmost tip of the country, an 18.5 hectare island just 150 metres from the US border in Lake Eerie). *North of Middle Island* begins with a collection of poems reflecting on the unique culture of the region. The book concludes with a long epic-style poem called “Piper,” a fictional narrative about actor and wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper’s time on Pelee Island. *North of Middle Island* is slated for release in September 2023. You can find out more about D.A. Lockhart’s work at [Wazhashk Poetry](https://wazhashkpoetry.com/) ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/image-1-682x1024.png "image-1 - Kegedonce Press")Excerpt from *Go Down Odawa Way* **Categories:** News **Tags:** book sale, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Poetry --- ### [Author Spotlight for March: Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-march-louise-bernice-halfe-sky-dancer/) **Published:** March 1, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** For International Women’s History Month we feature Sky Dancer, Louise B. Halfe. Her celebrated poetry collections *Bear Bones and Feathers, Burning in this Midnight Dream, Blue Marrow,* and *The Crooked Good* have earned many awards and accolades. Sky Dancer served as the second poet laureate for Saskatchewan in 2005 and has just finished her tenure as the [2022 Parliamentary Poet Laureate for Canada](https://lop.parl.ca/About/Parliament/Poet/former-Poet-laureate9-e.html). A member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Halfe attended the Blue Quills residential school when she was young. Her poetry reflects on the history and experiences of Indigenous peoples; on colonialism, residential schools, and inter-generational trauma. But her writings always carry themes of hope, healing, recovery and reconnection to ancestral language and tradition. Sky Dancer joined Kegedonce Press’s list of authors in late 2020. Earlier that year, Coteau Books, her previous publisher, sadly closed its doors. Sky Dancer reached out to us to put two of her classic poetry collections, *[Blue Marrow](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/blue-marrow/)* and *[The Crooked Good](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/the-crooked-good/)*, back into print. Both books place a strong emphasis on the strength of women and their experiences of colonialism and patriarchy. Much of the long poem of *Blue Marrow* is voiced by Grandmothers, both past and present, real and legendary. *The Crooked Good* traces the story of ê-kwêskît, Turn-Around-Woman, a story paralleled by the legend of Rolling Head Woman. The poems are a tribute to the lives, the hopes and the dreams of Indigenous women, and to their indomitable power. In her interview with Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm in our new edition of *Blue Marrow,* Halfe spoke about the women in her poetry: “I wanted to give them voice. Because increasingly, we’re up against our men. We’re trying to find our voice and our place. I also wanted to ask those particular Grandmothers, What was it like for you to be married to a settler? Because I’m married to a settler. I needed to understand where they were coming from. … I wanted to go inside their skin and find out what it was like for many of our women way back then. And, really, the dynamics are not very much different from today.” Sky Dancer is also a strong advocate of language learning and preservation, and her poetry is threaded throughout with Cree names, words, phrases and some whole verses in Cree. She comments on this in the same interview: “It’s not only preservation of the language, it’s also to create a dialogue with people who don’t speak the language, whether they are native or settlers. If they are stuck, they will find somebody who will help them along the way. The other point that I wanted to make is that often I will come across a phrase or a statement or a word in a foreign language that I don’t understand and often there is no interpretation of that word. I, as a reader, I have to guess. So I figure tit for tat. If they can do it, we can do it.” Though the books include Cree/English glossaries, the use of Cree is intended to extend the conversation about, and learning of, the language beyond their pages. We at Kegedonce Press had a marvellous time working on *[Blue Marrow](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/blue-marrow/)* and *[The Crooked Good](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/the-crooked-good/).* As we had no digital copies of the books to work from, they had to be typed up by hand before the publication process could begin—it was an opportunity to closely read these simply brilliant poetry collections. We then reached out to two talented Indigenous artists, [Leah Dorion](https://leahdorion.ca/) and [Keevin Peeace](https://www.kevinpeeace.com/), who provided the cover art for *Blue Marrow* and *The Crooked Good*, respectively. Our wonderful layout designer, Chantal Lalonde, took those amazing cover images and used selections from them to beautify the interior pages. We love these gorgeous new editions of Sky Dancer’s classic poetry collections! As part of our Indigenous Languages feature for 2023, *[Blue Marrow](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/blue-marrow/)* is on sale for the month of March, only on the [Kegedonce Press website](https://kegedonce.com/). You can see and hear[ Sky Dancer reading from *Blue Marrow* and *The Crooked Good* ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW8RtdBURXI&t=23s)on the [Kegedonce Press YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4MjIgYTKjUGfTad59-rUBA). **Categories:** News **Tags:** book sale, Cree poems, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Poetry, Sky Dancer --- ### [Author Spotlight for February: Smokii Sumac](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-february-smokii-sumac/) **Published:** February 3, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** This month, we shine the spotlight on Smokii Sumac, author of *[you are enough: love poems for the end of the world](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/you-are-enough-love-poems-for-the-end-of-the-world/)*. We caught up with Smokii recently and learned about some amazing new projects he is currently working on. **Kegedonce Press**: What has changed for you, with regards to poetry and writing, since publishing *you are enough*? **Smokii Sumac**: *you are enough* is a collection of poems written almost daily over the span of two years. I would love to say I continued that practice, however, once the book came out, I actually ended up writing less and less, especially in recent years with the pandemic. I think sometimes creative folks need breaks, and I’m grateful that I took space, and tried on some other jobs. In 2023, however, I have returned to my creative practices and am working on new work. While poetry still makes me happy, and I still post on social media regularly, I am working on different written mediums lately. **KP**: What role does your poetry play for you, either in your life or out there in the world or both? **SS**: Poetry gifts me with the ability to connect. Whether that is connecting with someone reading my poem and witnessing or experiencing a feeling that they have felt before, but perhaps could not name, or if it’s myself reading a poem that reaches out of the page and into my heart, I appreciate poetry for capturing something familiar. I can’t answer this question without drawing your attention to one of my poems from *you are enough* \[“there are hierarchies of grief”\] that was recently animated by Atimekw animator, Meky Ottawa, which is [now available on CBC Gem](https://gem.cbc.ca/media/how-to-lose-everything/s01e04). This experience of collaborating with an animator, a musician (G.R. Gritt did the music for the animation), and producers, Christa Couture and Michele St. John, has really reminded me of the power of poetry. What was once simply my words on a page, became something new. We were also able to translate this work in Ktunaxa (Ktunaxa version [available here](https://gem.cbc.ca/media/how-to-lose-everything/s01e09)) and I have learned so much about my own words and work through this process. Now that it’s out in the world, I hope that folks who know grief will find it and feel that connection–the power of knowing we are not alone, even in some of the loneliest experiences like that of grief. **KP**: What are you working on now? I try to keep up with poetry on social media (Instagram @smokiisumac) still regularly, although it’s much less often than it used to be. This is because I’m happy to share that I’ve been selected for the [National Queer and Trans Playwriting Unit](https://zeezeetheatre.ca/unit/2022-national-queer-trans-playwriting-unit/), which involves nine theatres in Canada, and is led by [ZeeZee theatre](https://zeezeetheatre.ca/) in Vancouver. So, I have followed some incredible Indigenous playwrights into the world of Theatre! I’m also happy to be working on my new podcast project: the ʔasqanaki podcast, which was generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts. It is a podcast featuring Indigenous artists and musicians and the Ktunaxa concept behind it: ʔasqanaki, means to tell two versions of the same story. It will be coming out later this spring, so keep an eye out at [smokiisumac.com](https://www.smokiisumac.com/) for more! You can listen to Smokii’s CBC radio interview about his video in the “How to Lose Everything” series [here: (41:20 min. mark)](https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-96-radio-west/clip/15964043-a-creston-woman-speaking-challenges-faced-loved-ones?onboarding=false&fbclid=IwAR0snqky74qZ06gmXBQf9DvpW5t_jlRUdAg0znWF_xtNm5HdIncbMVP7Feo). Smokii’s book, *[you are enough: love poems for the end of the world](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/you-are-enough-love-poems-for-the-end-of-the-world/)* is moving, poignant, occasionally funny and powerfully insightful. Its poems reflect on gender, identity, sex, addiction and recovery, and finding one’s way home. Smokii introduces readers to people and places he has loved and learned from, and through it all, helps us come to know that we are enough, just as we are. *you are enough* won the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award in Published English-language Poetry. **Categories:** News **Tags:** Indigenous, Indigenous languages, Indigenous literatures, Ktunaxa, Poetry, trans --- ### [Welcome new Kegedonce Press author Marjorie Beaucage](https://kegedonce.com/welcome-new-kegedonce-press-author-marjorie-beaucage/) **Published:** January 20, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** ## **A warm Kegedonce Press welcome to acclaimed filmmaker, artist, activist and poet Marjorie Beaucage, whose book *leave some for the birds: movements for justice* will be released in spring, 2023.** Marjorie Beaucage is a Two-Spirit Métis Auntie, filmmaker, art-ivist and educator, a land protector and a water walker. Born in Vassar, Manitoba, to a large Métis family, Marjorie’s life’s work has been about creating social change, working to give people the tools for creating possibilities and right relations. She has been a Grandmother for Walking With Our Sisters; the Elder for OUT Saskatoon; and the Elder-In-Residence for the University of Saskatchewan Student Union. As a current Board Member of Chokecherry Studios, she is giving back to future art-ivists as they stand up for themselves and their community through creating art, music, writing. She just finished six short harm-reduction videos for creating possibilities of wellness with story medicine. Her forthcoming poetic narrative, *[leave some for the birds](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/leave-some-for-the-birds-movements-for-justice/)*, gathers her reflections on seven decades of life seeking justice as a two-spirit Michif/Metis woman. The book unfolds the experiences and wisdom of a woman who has dedicated much of her life and talent to creating social change. It’s a reflection on a life in poetry, poetic prose, and allegorical ‘recipes’ for change – all accompanied by some of the author’s beautiful photographs and collage artwork. Marjorie writes: “I have been part of many social movements in my life, and in the last 40 years I have expressed my search for justice as an art-ivist – using art and story medicine to create social change. I came to understand the movements of my life as currents running through me, deep underground streams, unconscious still waters, dammed up tributaries, spring melts. Childhood, spirituality, woman-ness, revolution, creation were sources sustaining me as I navigated my place and purpose in life.” **From the prologue to *leave some for the birds*:** “Each ‘movement’ of my life has been an encounter with the injustices of colonialism and poverty, and as I collected these stories together, I saw themes that my younger activist self could have learned from. Especially the need to sustain and heal one’s spirit in a world that has too often undervalued difference. “I have also reflected on the impact of the feminist movement on Indigenous women and my relations with women as a part of my journey. As a filmmaker and storyteller I have examined institutional racism in its many forms and their impact on me. It is time for us to be seen and heard. I believe the world is ready for a different way of seeing and being.” Kegedonce Press is thrilled to welcome Marjorie Beaucage to our list of amazing Indigenous authors. *[leave some for the birds: movements for justice](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/leave-some-for-the-birds-movements-for-justice/)* is available for pre-order now and will be released in May, 2023. **Categories:** News **Tags:** activism, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Marjorie Beaucage, Poetry, social justice, two-spirit --- ### [Author Spotlight for January, Basil Johnston](https://kegedonce.com/author-spotlight-for-january/) **Published:** January 3, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** As part of the celebration of our 30th Anniversary, every month in 2023 we will be shining the spotlight on one of our amazing authors! We begin the year with Basil Johnston, esteemed Anishinaabe writer, storyteller, language teacher and scholar. Kegedonce Press has had the great honour of publishing not one but *six* of Basil Johnston’s books. Basil was born in Wasauksing First Nation in 1929, and later moved to the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. He wrote many books in both English and Ojibwe (Anishinaabemowin) and received numerous awards including the Order of Ontario and three honourary doctorates. Basil’s accolades include: the 2013 Ontario Arts Council Aboriginal Arts Award; the 2007 Anskohk Aboriginal Literary Lifetime Achievement Award; the 2004 Aboriginal Achievement Award for Heritage and Spirituality; and the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal. One of the foremost Anishinaabe writers and storytellers, Basil was well known for his gentle humour, deep wisdom, and enduring optimism. His unique, amicable voice as a storyteller permeates every page of his work. Basil was also a staunch advocate for preserving Indigenous languages and culture. “More than just an author, in his later years Johnston turned his focus to the preservation of Anishinaabemowin, the language of the Anishinaabe, once again acting as a trailblazer for others to follow” (“Basil Johnston,” [*The Canadian Encyclopedia*](https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/basil-h-johnston)). In just over a decade, Basil published six books with Kegedonce Press, three of which were fully Ojibwe/English bilingual. His Kegedonce Press titles are: [Honour Earth Mother: Mino-audjaudauh Mizzu-Kummik-Quae](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/honour-earth-mother/) (2003), essays and stories on nature and the environment. [Gift of the Stars: Anungook gauh meenikooying](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/the-gift-of-the-stars/) (2010), bilingual, traditional stories for children and adults. [Think Indian: Languages are Beyond Price](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/think-indian/) (2011), essay collection. [Living in Harmony: Mino-nawae-indawaewin](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/living-in-harmony/) (2012), bilingual, traditional stories for children and adults. [Walking in Balance: Meeyau-ossaewin](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/walking-in-balance/) (2013), bilingual, traditional stories for adults. [Candies: A Humour Composite](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/candies-a-humour-composite/) (2015), short comedic stories. Basil passed away at Wiarton, Ontario in 2015 at the age of 86. This month, *[Think Indian](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/think-indian/)* is our featured sale title, at 40% off for all of January. Watch for features on the rest of Basil’s books throughout 2023. **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabemowin, book sale, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures --- ### [A Special Year...](https://kegedonce.com/a-special-year/) **Published:** January 1, 2023 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** 2023 has begun! This is a very special year for Kegedonce Press: It’s our 30th anniversary! The press began back in 1993 with the publication of *[My Heart is a Stray Bullet](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/my-heart-is-a-stray-bullet/)* by founder and managing editor Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. Kateri founded Kegedonce Press as a publishing house that would feel welcoming to Indigenous authors, especially those publishing for the first time. As a dedicated Indigenous press, part of our mission is to preserve Indigenous voices *as they are*, even when it means going against some of the unspoken expectations of the publishing industry—we see this as an act of decolonizing. And we see Indigenous literatures for what they are: not a single category, but *world literatures* encompassing all categories and genres. In the past 30 years, we have published works by some of the most widely known contemporary Indigenous writers in Canada, including Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Joanne Arnott, Cherie Dimaline, Marilyn Dumont, Louise Bernice Halfe, D.A. Lockhart, Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, Aaron Paquette, Sharron Proulx-Turner, Gregory Scofield, and Richard Van Camp, among many others. In August of 2022, the United Nations declared the Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022 to 2032). The U.N. recognizes that it is now more important than ever to raise awareness and act to preserve Indigenous languages to save them from extinction. Kegedonce Press has published several bilingual books in Anishinaabemowin and English, as well as many others that are language-inclusive; that is, they include words and phrases in Indigenous languages, including Anishinabemowin, Cree, Lenape and others. We have several events planned for 2023, including monthly features and sales of our bilingual and language-inclusive titles. Each month we will also spotlight one of our amazing authors and the titles they published with us. And, who knows, there may be a few other fun happenings over the course of the year. You’re invited to join the celebration! Check in with us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Kegedonce/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kegedoncepress/), and enjoy our author reading videos on [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@kegedoncepress6548). Mno shki bboon! (Happy new year!) **Categories:** News **Tags:** 30th anniversary, book sales, celebration, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, languages, Publishing --- ### [Special Holiday Book Bundles](https://kegedonce.com/special-holiday-book-bundles/) **Published:** November 23, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Winter is the time to curl up inside with a good book. This season, Kegedonce Press is making it easy with four special book bundles for the winter holidays. Because good books are better when they come in twos! We have selected pairings that fit well together, for the young and young-at-heart, for poetry lovers, and lovers of spec-fic, mythology and the fantastical. **Check out all of our holiday special bundles at the following links:** Children’s Book Bundle: [*Amik* and *Keeshig and the Ojibwe Pterodactyls*](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/childrens-picture-book-bundle/) NShannacappo Duo: [*Through the Eyes of Asunder* and *The Krillian Key: Salamander Run*](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/nshannacappo-book-bundle/) Poetry Book Bundle 1: [*Slam Coalkan* and *A Moon Made of Copper*](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/poetry-book-bundle-slam-coalkan-and-a-moon-made-of-copper/) Poetry Book Bundle 2: [*Go Down Odawa Way* and *sitting by the rapids*](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/poetry-book-bundle-go-down-odawa-way-and-sitting-by-the-rapids/) **From now until December 31, these special Indigenous book pairings are available at 50% off.** **Categories:** News **Tags:** book sale, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, two books for one --- ### [Welcome New Kegedonce Press Author, D.A. Lockhart!](https://kegedonce.com/welcome-new-kegedonce-press-author-d-a-lockhart/) **Published:** January 25, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** ## A warm Kegedonce Press welcome to acclaimed Lenape poet, D.A. Lockhart, whose newest poetry collection, *[Go Down Odawa Way](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/)* has just been released! If you know anything about Indigenous poetry in Canada, then it’s a good bet that you have heard of D.A. Lockhart, author of seven previous poetry collections, including *Devil in the Woods* (Brick Books 2019) and *Tukhone: Where the River Narrows and the Shores Bend* (Black Moss Press 2020). His work has appeared in *Best Canadian Poetry in English 2019*, *TriQuarterly*, *ARC Poetry Magazine*, *Grain*, *Belt*, and the *Malahat Review* among many. He is a Turtle Clan member of Eelünaapéewi Lahkéewiit (Lenape), a registered member of the Moravian of the Thames First Nation, and currently resides at the south shore of Waawiiyaatanong (Windsor,ON-Detroit, MI) and Pelee Island. Kegedonce Press is thrilled to publish *Go Down Odawa Way,* Lockhart’s newest collection. Grounded in the southwestern territories of the Three-Fires Confederacy, Lockhart’s poetic expressions at times heighten, at times negate the contrast between natural and urban landscapes. Beneath the surface-level visions of factories, asphalt and pick-up trucks dwells the immortal spirit of the land, of nature, of wind and water, sky and birds. The glory of sunsets beautify the cracks in the concrete. [*Go Down Odawa Way* ](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/)is a poetic journey into the physical, historical and cultural spaces of Waawiiyaatanong (Windsor, ON to Detroit, MI), wherein the poet evokes the land and villages, the history and mythologies of the Ojibway, Huron/Wendat, and Pottawatomi nations. Lockhart poignantly and powerfully captures a history that long predates the mere handful of centuries of European colonization, exposing the ongoing effects of settler culture and its industry, symbolized in the roads, parking lots and freeways that inevitably scar the land. ## For more details, to read an excerpt from *Go Down Odawa Way*, and to order your copy, [click here](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/)! **Drop in on Kegedonce Press on[ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Kegedonce/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/KegedoncePress), and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kegedoncepress/) from now through March 2022** **to follow our online launch of D.A. Lockhart’s fabulous new book!** **Categories:** News **Tags:** D.A. Lockhart, Indigenous, Poetry --- ### [Publish with Kegedonce Press!](https://kegedonce.com/publish-with-kegedonce-press/) **Published:** October 7, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** **Dedicated Indigenous Publisher Invites Manuscript Submissions.** Kegedonce Press is seeking manuscript submissions from **First Nations, Inuit** and **Michif/Métis** creators based in the territories known as Canada. We are seeking submissions in the following categories: Fiction Short Fiction Graphic Novels Memoir Creative non-fiction Children’s books If you are an Indigenous writer or author/illustrator and have a manuscript you would like considered for publication, please see our [manuscript submission guidelines](https://kegedonce.com/submissions/). Native-owned and operated, Kegedonce Press has been publishing beautiful books by Indigenous authors, artists and poets for nearly thirty years. We are dedicated to supporting the works of emerging and established authors, as well as the enterprises of Indigenous editors, artists and other partners in the publishing process. We have published works by some of the most celebrated and widely known Indigenous writers and storytellers in Canada, including Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Cherie Dimaline, Marilyn Dumont, Louise Bernice Halfe, Basil Johnston, Daniel Health Justice, Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, Aaron Paquette, Sharron Proulx-Turner, Gregory Scofield, and Richard Van Camp, among many others. Join the Kegedonce Press team! [Submit your manuscript today](https://kegedonce.com/submissions/). **Categories:** News **Tags:** Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Publishing --- ### [New Poem by Louise Bernice Halfe - Sky Dancer honours the children of the Kamloops residential school.](https://kegedonce.com/new-poem-by-louise-bernice-halfe-sky-dancer-honours-the-children-of-the-kamloops-residential-school/) **Published:** June 9, 2021 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** **Angels: 215 >, 1820 – 1979** **“The Past is Always Our Present”** A cradle board hangs from a tree A beaded moss bag is folded in a small chest A child’s moccasin is tucked Into a skunk Pipe bag Children’s shoes in a ghost dance. A mother clutches these Palms held against her face A river runs between her fingers. A small boy covered in soot On all fours a naked toddler Plays in the water, while her Kokom’s skirt Is wet to her calves. “How tall are you now?” she asked. “I’m bigger than the blueberry shrub, Oh, as tall as an Aspen Where my birth was buried. See my belly-button?” Each have dragged a rabbit to the tent, a tipi Watched expert hands Skin, butcher, make berry soup for dinner. Boy falls a robin with a slingshot He is shown how to skewer the breast Roast the bird on hot coals. He will not kill Without purpose, again. The tipi, tent, the log-shack are empty Trees crane their heads through The tipi flaps, the tent door Through the cracks of the mud-shack. A mother’s long wail from 1890 Carried in the wind. A grandparent Pokes embers, a sprinkle of tobacco, Cedar, sweetgrass, fungus, sage Swirls upward. Children’s creeks Trickle in their sleep. A blanket of deep earth Covered fingers entwined Arms around each other. We have been Waiting. It is time to release This storm That consumes all this nation. Awasis, this spirit-light, these angels Dance in the flame. The bones Will share their stories. Listen. Act. These children are ours. Could be……………………..Yours. **Copyright: Louise B. Halfe-Sky Dancer** This poem, written on June 3, was created for the National Parliamentary Website. Louise has asked friends and associates to share it publicly. The copyright remains with Louise B. Halfe. **Categories:** News **Tags:** 215, Indigenous, Kamloops, Louise Halfe, Poet Laureate, Poetry --- ### [Cover Story: Through the Eyes of Asunder](https://kegedonce.com/cover-story-through-the-eyes-of-asunder/) **Published:** April 22, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** **Neal Shannacappo writes about the serendipitous origins of the cover image for his debut poetry collection.** “Aanii kina wiya! The art on the cover \[of *Through the Eyes of Asunder*\] was a serendipitous event that I discovered after one long night of inking some graphic novel pages. I used to use paper placed underneath the page I was inking to prevent ink from bleeding through onto the table I was working on. It’s notoriously difficult to get ink stains out of hardwood. I had been using the same page to “catch” ink for a few nights now, I am at my creative best at night and that’s when I do most of my artwork and writing. So once finished I noticed an unusual pattern to the ink stains on that page, looking at it I thought I saw a person in the ink stains, and turning the page counter-clockwise I saw it clearly. I then took a marker and filled in the t-shirt and made the image very clear. Immediately I knew I had my image for a collection of poetry I was putting together, and years have passed since that night and now, still, it is that image that best encapsulates the idea of someone who is Asunder. There is also a play on the word and image because it started out as broken pieces of ink that became whole, much like me, the writer that was once a broken person who became whole. And that is what the book is about, being broken, but not staying broken and perhaps not being quite whole in the end because we are never truly broken and nor are we ever truly whole. Instead, we are always aspiring to be both unbroken and whole, so too is that image, as far as illustrations can ever reach for being something more than they are.” —Neal Shannacappo, author of *Through the Eyes of Asunder.* The cover for *Through the Eyes of Asunder* was designed by Neal Shannacappo and Chantal Lalonde, with art direction by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. ***Through the Eyes of Asunder* is coming this summer from Kegedonce Press!** **Categories:** News **Tags:** Book Launch, cover reveal, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Poetry --- ### [April is National Poetry Month](https://kegedonce.com/april-is-national-poetry-month/) **Published:** April 1, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** ## Kegedonce Press celebrates our newest poetry collection, D.A. Lockhart’s *[Go Down Odawa Way](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/)*. “*Lyric experiences from the rooted-class, steeped in the bloodlines of survival, posed on the verges of decolonization.*“ —D.A. Lockhart. Poems that cross the boundaries of an international border, of urban and natural landscapes, of past and present—*[Go Down Odawa Way](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/)* journeys across Waawiiyaatanong (Windsor, ON–Detroit, MI), the southwestern traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. It is a poetic exploration of the documented villages, history, and mythologies of the Odawa, Ojibway, Huron/Wendat, and Pottawatomi nations that were lost to the process of colonization and relocation. Yvonne Blomer, editor of *Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds*, writes of *Go Down Odawa Way:* “In a voice that contains great authority earned through deep understanding of the traditional territories of the Three Fires Confederacy, Daniel Lockhart writes sonnets to water, praise poems to basketball players, and delves into the grimy urban centres where Indigenous histories are conjoined to settler; where braiding has occurred, so ‘this/ lightly-used sport-seated/ pick-up truck is Indigenous/ in ways/ that birchbark canoes/ and flat/ soled moccasins/ never were.’ Lockhart sings to name, praise, and make a record of this ancient and altered water and land, ‘along pressure-treated fences, under salt/ bleached overpasses, each current bubble/ and twirl a constricted muscle twitch.’ And the people who have been forced to witness change, ‘Grandmother rises, / her downward fixed gaze rests/ on the steady tumble/ of coal-fired smoke/ feeding a hundred-thousand air conditioners.’” Denise Low, author of *The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival*, comments: “‘There is nothing but the faith and/histories we carry’ writes D. A. Lockhart in *Go Down Odawa Way.* Lockhart renews concepts of Lenape peoples in living words that move like torrents of springtime rivers. The poems follow trails of water, land, and time. They keep moving—not contained by borders of the pages. They enter into listeners’ own lives. This book has healing power.” Kegedonce Press is grateful to D.A. Lockhart for participating in this [fantastic interview with Open Book](http://open-book.ca/News/Acclaimed-Poet-D.A.-Lockhart-on-Taxidermied-Iguanas-Poetry-Shipbreakers-and-the-Importance-of-Endings) in which he discusses stuffed iguanas, shipbreakers and the importance of endings, among other fascinating things… Don’t miss a chance to view the [video book trailer for Go Down Odawa Way,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOlTWNFSDEw) produced by the author. Join Kegedonce Press on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Go-Down-Odawa-Way-108099068463221), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kegedoncepress/), and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/KegedoncePress) for posts, excerpts, images and more as we celebrate National Poetry Month and the release of D.A. Lockhart’s eighth poetry collection, *[Go Down Odawa Way](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/).* ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Shemu-sipu-1024x1024.png "Shemu-sipu - Kegedonce Press")[httpskegedoncecombookspoetrygo down odawa way](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/go-down-odawa-way/) **Categories:** News --- ### [Ghost Lake Publication Anniversary: What a Year it's Been!](https://kegedonce.com/ghost-lake-publication-anniversary-what-a-year-its-been/) **Published:** February 2, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** On February 6, 2021, [Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler](https://nathanadlerblog.wordpress.com/) launched his new book *[Ghost Lake](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/)*. Since then, this collection of interconnected horror, urban fantasy and thriller stories has become one of Kegedonce Press’s most acclaimed titles. Its first accolade was as a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Da Vinci Eye Award in Book Design. The Eric Hoffer Awards also gave it an Honourable Mention in its commercial fiction category. Then came the Indigenous Voices Awards in June, and we were absolutely thrilled when *Ghost Lake* won the [IVA for Published Fiction in English](https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/home-page-1)! In the summer, *Ghost Lake* was also shortlisted for the First Nations Communities Read competition. It has also been a busy year for Nathan. From appearances at the FOLD Festival, the Black Museum, and the Naked Heart Festival (among others) to articles and interviews for [Open Book](https://open-book.ca/News/The-In-Character-Interview-with-Nathan-Niigan-Noodin-Adler), [All Lit Up](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Off-Kilter2/2021/Off-Kilter-Interview-with-Nathan-Niigan-Noodin-Adler), and [Rrampt](https://www.rrampt.com/nathan-niigan-noodin-adler-writes-indigenous-horror-stories-on-the-folklore-from-his-youth-33602), both Nathan and *Ghost Lake* have received a lot of attention! Nathan has also been teaching Writing Horror at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. What an exciting year it has been! For anyone just now encountering *Ghost Lake*, allow us to reprint here, for your reading pleasure, the comments from the jurors of the Erik Hoffer and Indigenous Voices Awards! **US Review of Books: judges’ remarks for the Eric Hoffer Award.** ***“***This is a one way trip to true horror with a mystery needing to be solved. Following different characters and stories uncovers mystery, passion, vengeance, and a take on mother nature itself. There are thirteen stories in total, each with relatable characters with diverse goals and challenges. Yet, in Ojibwe, the land remembers it all. Adler has skills in storytelling that change the game, which tips the scale on how horror feels with page-gripping suspense and a good measure of problem solving until the very end.” **IVA Juror’s Comments:** “We love these stories! Interconnected horror stories based on traditional Anishinaabeg stories all set on an eerie reserve aptly named Ghost Lake? Yes please. Every story surprises. An absolute page-turner, deeply engaging horror stories that leave you breathless. The sheer breadth and range of what Adler has accomplished here is impressive.” ## Our congratulations to Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler on this [fantastic collection of short stories](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/)! **[*Ghost Lake* ](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/)is the companion volume to *[Wrist](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/wrist/)*, the Indigenous horror novel that Nathan published with Kegedonce Press in 2016. The two books share some of the same settings and characters.** **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabeg, horror, Indigenous literatures, Ojibwe, short stories --- ### [Welcome New Author, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith!](https://kegedonce.com/welcome-new-author-christine-miskonoodinkwe-smith/) **Published:** January 12, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** A warm welcome to new Kegedonce Press **author Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, author of *These are the Stories*: *Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor*** Kegedonce Press is excited to announce the release of *[These are the Stories: Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/these-are-the-stories-memories-of-a-60s-scoop-survivor/)* by Saulteaux/Peguis First Nation author Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith. In this collection of auto-biographical essays, Christine tells the stories of her experiences in the child welfare system, including a failed adoption and her quest to find her birth mother. At the basis of these stories is the question, “Where is home?” Christine’s experiences express the lasting harm and trauma caused by the seizure of First Nations children from their homes and communities. While this is a story of the dreadful failures of the child welfare system, it is also a story of hope, as the author relates her journey towards healing. Reconnecting with her birth mother as an adult enabled her to feel complete, whole, and home. **To find out how to help Christine get the word out about her book, visit the [launch page ](https://christineswritingandconsulting.ca/uncategorized/these-are-the-stories-book-launch/)on her website!** ## **For more information on *These are the Stories: Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor*,** **to read an excerpt, or to order your copy, [click here](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/these-are-the-stories-memories-of-a-60s-scoop-survivor/)!** **Our thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors and Toronto Lit Up for** **sponsoring this Book Launch!** ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/image.png "image - Kegedonce Press") **Categories:** News **Tags:** Book Launch, Indigenous Literature, Sixties Scoop --- ### [Welcome New Author and Illustrator, Sharon King](https://kegedonce.com/welcome-new-author-and-illustrator-sharon-king/) **Published:** January 19, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** ## *Amik*, a delightful children’s picture-book, is written and illustrated by Potawatomi educator and Juno-nominated artist Sharon King. Kegedonce Press is thrilled to announce the publication of *Amik*, our very first children’s board book! With brilliantly colourful cut-paper illustrations and text in both Anishinaabemowin and English, author and illustrator Sharon King has created a very special book for children and families alike! *[Amik](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/amik/)* tells the story of a busy beaver. During the course of one day, the beaver works on his dam, surrounded by nature and the activities of various other creatures. At the end of the day, amik returns to be with his family. *Amik* is a story about the environment, and is a fun, colourful and educational book for children ages three through six. ## For more information and to see some sample pages from *Amik* click [here](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/amik/)! **We begin our official release of *Amik* in February! Drop in on Kegedonce Press on[ Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Kegedonce/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/KegedoncePress), and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/kegedoncepress/) for more details!** **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anishinaabemowin, Children's book, Indigenous literatures --- ### [The Krillian Key, One-Year Anniversary!](https://kegedonce.com/the-krillian-key-one-year-anniversary/) **Published:** November 26, 2021 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year, but here we are at the anniversary of the publication of *[The Krillian Key: Salamander Run](https://kegedonce.com/books/graphic-novel-comics/the-krillian-key/)*, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Neal Shannacappo. The story, which is only the first volume in a planned series, is about Kyrill, also known as Salamander, who is an immortal living in a post-apocalyptic future circa 2242. There are flashbacks to modern-day Canada, and the mysteries surrounding Salamander’s birth. More than 200 years later, Salamander finds himself pursued by warring factions of alien hybrids who want to either save him or use him to fulfill their ominous plans. *The Krillian Key* has fast-paced, over-the-top action and fight sequences along with deeply reflective moments about the main character’s past and his roots in Indigenous culture and spirituality. It is fun, exciting, and touching in equal measure. On the one-year anniversary of its release, we caught up with Neal, who spoke with us about the book and his more recent work, and offered some insights into the world of Indigenous graphic novels in general. Here is our conversation. **Kegedonce Press:** *[The Krillian Key](https://kegedonce.com/books/graphic-novel-comics/the-krillian-key/)* was your first published graphic novel that was entirely your work, both story and illustrations. How did working on it compare to other works you have done? **Neal Shannacappo:** It didn’t feel like work, it’s a story that I know very well and have always enjoyed working on it. The new challenge was bringing out what is inside my head and putting it onto the page in a way that made it all make sense to the reader. I had long suspected that I was too close to the work for someone new to the story. Working with Jennifer Lum, my editor, was really great and with her help I was able to figure out a way to make it all come together without sacrificing content. I rewrote the beginning, and illustrated the history of the world since Salamander’s birth and then changed the ending. So working on *The Krillian Key* was comfortable and yet at the same time a challenging experience, one of the harder parts was cutting out the car chase to make room for the new beginning and a streamlined story. **KP:** What has publishing *The Krillian Key* led to for you? What else has been going on for you in the past year as a writer and illustrator? I’ve been invited to guest lecture a few times at various universities, thank you to Zoom and the pandemic for making that a viable reality. I’ve spoken on a couple of panels about comic books and graphic novels which were pretty rad. I taught a month long weekly series of workshops on graphic novels and throughout it all I’ve developed some pretty interesting and solid relationships with Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities that I would not have made otherwise. I’ve been writing short stories all set in the Krillian Key universe for a couple of Indigenous graphic anthologies and getting *The Krillian Key* out there led to my being asked to turn the novel *Land-Water-Sky Nde-Ti-Yat’a* by Katha into a graphic novel. **KP:** What are you reading right now or looking forward to reading this year? Are there any graphic novels or author/illustrators that have inspired you? I’m reading *Certain Dark Things* a novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia that is about vampires in Mexico City, I’m just finishing up the first couple of chapters and the protagonist has met and been fed upon by the main vampire named Atl. So far it’s not like western vampire stories and I really enjoy that about it and I’m looking forward to continuing the book. I’ve started two graphic novel series called *Invisible Kingdom* and *Descender*, respectively. **KP:** Indigenous literatures have gained a lot more attention lately. What changes have you noticed in the realm of Indigenous graphic novels? It feels like we’re starting to take control of our narrative across the board and that feels amazing. Growing up there weren’t very many opportunities to see Indigenous people in books or graphic novels that were by us and for us. I remember cheering in the Denzel Washington movie *The Magnificent Seven* remake when he spoke an Indigenous language with the character Red Harvest played by Martin Sensmeier. That was a significant moment in cinema, and recognizing some of the words spoken was amazing to hear and see on the big screen. Indigenous voices in sci-fi are incredible to read and finally see our stories and our way of telling a story in print and on screen; we’re main characters and not tokenized in the background of someone else’s story where the author/creator isn’t Indigenous. Seeing all the Indigenous graphic novels out there is a dream come true and then being part of this experience is mind-boggling because it sneaks up on you even though you’ve lived the experience. **KP:** Where do Salamander and the *Krillian Key* series go from here? Salamander can be seen in the Indigenous werewolf anthology called *A Howl*, in a short story which takes place the moment after Julian has entered the delivery room, and introduces werewolves into the Krillian Key universe. After that there are a couple of short stories, I’m nearly finished for the Water Protectors League anthology. *The Krillian Key* volume two starts off a week before Salamander is born and tells the story of how Julian came to find himself standing before the delivery room. There’s more history of the solar system and how the hybrids fit into the story of humanity, and then we catch up to Salamander mid car chase. The second volume will world build on the connection between Indigenous peoples of earth as well as further develop the alien threat facing our solar system. **KP:** Miigwetch, Neal! We are *so* looking forward to Volume 2! You can read the [All Lit Up feature ](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/Character-Study/2020/Character-Study-The-Krillian-Key-Salamander-Run)on *[The Krillian Key](https://alllitup.ca/books/K/Krillian-Key-The)*, in which the graphic novel is imagined as a movie! Check out Neal’s Patreon site [here](https://www.patreon.com/nshannacappo) or visit him on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/Navriss). **Categories:** News **Tags:** graphic novel, Indigenous, NShannacappo, Ottawa author --- ### [Fall Back Title: The Colour of Dried Bones](https://kegedonce.com/fall-back-title-the-colour-of-dried-bones/) **Published:** October 29, 2021 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** Ojibway poet, writer, activist and academic Lesley Belleau published her short story collection, *The Colour of Dried Bones* with Kegedonce press in 2008. As we “fall back” and revisit several of our back list titles, we reached out to Lesley to chat with her about the book and what she is up to now. Here is that interview. **Kegedonce Press:** Can you tell us a little bit about *The Colour of Dried Bones*, about the story of the main character? **Lesley Belleau:** *The Colour of Dried Bones* is a book consisting of intertwined short stories that reflect the life of the main protagonist (who is referred to several times as Bella throughout, although that can be a nickname between her and some relationships). My intention was to create a work that reflects relational elements within her life that narrate like a multiple snapshots of her own experiences as a woman, Indigenous woman, mother, sister, friend, daughter, granddaughter and partner. I wished to show her many relationships in order for the reader to gain a fuller scope of who she is as a protagonist. I tried to express, through her eyes, various aspects of her reality through these snapshots of her own lived experience. I wanted the stories to be natural, real stories that are relatable to Indigenous and other women through her perspective. **KP:** What do you remember about your process of writing the book? What were its inspirations? **LB:** I remember that the process of writing the book began with an assignment in my master’s degree class at University of Windsor as an exercise in Creative Writing on a subject of our own choosing. During that time, I was going through a tumultuous relationship, was a newly single mother, struggling to make ends meet with daycare, a toddler, and full-time school and part-time work in a new city, away from my community and family. I was having a difficult time. I believe that the process and inspiration for these stories began to take shape due to the nature of my own lived experience at that time, and I was able to fully understand and relate to Bella based on those said present conditions of my own life. With each new assignment, I decided to continue with the voice of Bella as a series of interconnected experiences that seemed to attach and compliment each other. I found it therapeutic during this period of struggle in my own life, which in turn, really helped me emotionally. By the end of the writing assignments, most of the stories were almost enough to create this first small novella. **KP:** The book reads like a novel, though each chapter is also a stand-alone short story. Can you say why you chose this format, why it worked best for this story/these stories? **LB:** I chose this format of short stories because I began writing short fiction and poetry at a young age, was unfamiliar with the longer novel-writing system, although later moved into that direction. I feel that I was comfortable with this format, and I really enjoyed the feeling of expressing snapshots of a life based on multiple experiences that were each their own as well as connected to a larger story. It also began to emerge as a way to express more emotion and feeling into a smaller frame, therefore condensing the larger narrative and giving me more freedom to express a greater depth and range of perspective and emotive qualities in a shorter span of narrative. **KP:** The stories in *The Colour of Dried Bones* are described as “an intimate glimpse into the reality faced by many young First Nations women.” How do you think that reality has changed, if at all, since *The Colour of Dried Bones* was published? Would you change how you told the story/stories today? **LB:** I believe that the reality for Indigenous women remains an important part of Canadian History, or the history of what we know as Turtle Island. Growing up on the reserve, Garden River First Nation, I became aware at a very young age the issues with racism, bias against Indigenous women, and sexism and sexual assault issues. For example, look at the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women even today. There is a silent warning within our communities of a potential threat which is a doubled threat of harm or abuse by being both a woman and Indigenous. I was hoping to express awareness not only historically (residential schools, domestic abuse, etc.) but on a contemporary level. I think this reality is just as vital as it was in 2008 (actually most of the stories were written around 2003–2005). However, a huge difference is that there is a further push to awareness today with the red dress project, marches and observances with MMIWG and with the Truth and Reconciliation Act actively acknowledging this ongoing problem. I may have changed how I told the stories today. Firstly, I have a greater life experience than I did almost 20 years ago. I have seen more, worked as an advocate with MMIWG, raised five children, and have practiced my writing skills into a more evolved way. I also have become stronger in terms of expressing my opinions and that of my cultural traditions. I think personal life experience definitely impacts one’s writing, and so, if I was to do a series of short stories, I believe that there would most likely be some literary and perspective differences. **KP:** What do you think has changed in the realm of Indigenous literatures since *The Colour of Dried Bones* came out? **LB:** I think there has been so much to have changed in the realm of Indigenous literatures since *The Colour of Dried Bones* was released and written. Firstly, the amount of new writers is vast and exciting! Entire college and university syllabi are filled with Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Literature, and libraries are collecting these new works and promoting them to a wonderful degree. I recall a time when I was a teenager where it was nearly impossible to find any works at all concerning Indigenous writing, never mind Indigenous women’s voices! Before the onset of the Internet, and even after, these works were hard to find, and certainly not being taught in mainstream classrooms. I think that young writers today have a much better access to Indigenous literature, and it has definitely become recognized as a serious part of Turtle Island’s cannon of voices. I believe that Indigenous literature is finally become recognized as crucial, and I am so grateful that our children and next generations will grow up to see this and to know how vital their own voices and stories and words and experiences are. **KP:** What do you hope that new readers might take away from the book? **LB:** I am hoping new readers will see that each one of our experiences, no matter how different, are important, and are able to be told in a multitude of fascinating ways. **KP:** Do you have any other writing in progress at the moment?**LB:** I am currently working on a new book of poetry, which I hope to have translated along with the English poems into Anishinaabemowin. I am also looking into a poetic collaboration with two other Indigenous women writers. It is an exciting time for Indigenous literature in all forms, and I will continue to keep writing and encouraging young writers to keep publishing and to never stop letting our voices be heard and respected. Miigwetch to Leslie for taking the time to chat with us by email! **[The Colour of Dried Bones](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/the-colour-of-dried-bones/) is** now on sale exclusively on the Kegedonce Press website. **Don’t miss this brilliantly-written short** **story collection.** **Categories:** News --- ### [Fall Back With Kegedonce Press!](https://kegedonce.com/fall-back-with-kegedonce-press/) **Published:** October 21, 2021 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** **This autumn, join us as we revisit some of our great back list titles.** From groundbreaking fiction and outstanding poetry to gorgeously illustrated children’s books, Kegedonce Press has a back list of over fifty great Indigenous titles. This fall, we highlight select titles from our back list with a special discount, author interviews, and other details about the books. We reached out to several [Kegedonce Press authors](https://kegedonce.com/authors/) to find out what they are doing now, and to have them reflect on the books they published with us. 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Halfe’s The Crooked Good, third edition. Kegedonce Press has had the very great honour of publishing brand-new editions of two of Louise Bernice Halfe’s classic, award-winning poetry collections. *[Blue Marrow](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/blue-marrow/)* was released earlier this year, with beautiful new cover art by Leah Dorion. When it came time to design the cover for the third edition of *[The Crooked Good](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/the-crooked-good/)*, Louise reached out to Saskatchewan-based artist [Kevin Peeace](https://www.kevinpeeace.com/), a member of the Yellowquill and Peter Chapman First Nations. He is especially known for his striking, colourful [mural projects ](https://www.kevinpeeace.com/murals)appearing in schools, churches, and other public spaces. Like the majority of his works, his painting, “The Spirit Within” emphasizes the significance of family, making it a beautifully apt cover for *The Crooked Good*, which follows the story of of ê-kwêskît, Turn-Around Woman, and her family, a story framed by the legend of Rolling Head Woman. With the release of *The Crooked Good* and its [online launch](https://www.facebook.com/CrookedGoodLaunch/), Kegedonce Press reached out to Kevin Peeace, to chat with him about the painting and his art. Here is that interview: *Kegedonce Press: Can you tell us a little bit about the piece, “The Spirit Within”? What does it depict? What were your influences? Is there a story behind the painting? Kevin Peeace: “The Spirit Within” speaks about the inherent spirit that dwells in all life forms within our world. Whether it’s humans, animals, rocks and trees, there is a spirit that inhabits each. The animals of our world are spirits that are bound to that form, they exist to procreate and survive much the same as people, with a big difference. The same can be said of the rocks that have lived for millions of years, and also of the trees and plants that provide much for the humans to sustain themselves. It’s only now that we are beginning to understand what the rocks have to say and what the trees have to tell us. Everything in this world has helped humans get to where we are today yet we have turned a blind-eye to the destruction we are causing, out selfishness has driven us out of their favour. They no longer talk to us as in the days of old, the animals fear us, the trees and plants do not give us their secrets anymore and the rocks have closed themselves within, we as mankind have lost the knowledge to be a part of this world, to be harmonious with our brethren spirits of this world. *Kegedonce Press: Is your artwork grounded in a specific culture, language, nation?* Kevin Peeace: The artwork is a combination of two cultures; Cree and Saulteaux. I pay homage to my family and its culture through my work. It is meant to give hope, the beauty of our First Nations is displayed in the vibrant colours. Family is everything! The children holding up the stars represents them striving to reach their dreams and goals. *Kegedonce Press: Can you tell us a little about your process? Where do you begin with a new painting?* Kevin Peeace: The creative process begins in the mind, in the studio. Sometimes it’s drawn from some memory long ago, or the sound of voices long since passed. It begins when I see my children, looking at them and trying to find a way, a path to create something beautiful. Inspiration is all around us, we just have to close our eyes and listen with our mind. *Kegedonce Press: What is the most important thing you have learned through creating your artwork?* Kevin Peeace: I am a product of the residential school system, much has been stripped of me. My identity, language and culture has long vanished. The person I am today is a tiny sliver of all that is left from the original person that was born into this world. I grew without the love and attention that should’ve been given, I survived this world knowing that time and all its possibilities were moving forward, I knew that I had to build myself into a better person. Art was the perfect escape and its greatest strength was the gift I was given. It showered me with knowledge and beauty, it has shown me many things that is possible. I use it as fountain to draw my energy so that I can create, and most of all share it with others. *Kegedonce Press: What pieces are you working on now?* Kevin Peeace: I am currently working on multiple pieces for various clients and organizations throughout the country. For those that wish to contact me I can be reached through my website at [www.kevinpeeace.com](www.kevinpeeace.com). *Kegedonce Press: What do you think of* The Crooked Good *and its use of your painting?* Kevin Peeace: I believe the book is genuine in its scope, the written word has the same abilities as the paints have to paintings. The symbolism is key to understanding the narrative and the creator. I only hope that the painting does the book justice in capturing its essence. Thanks very much to Kevin for chatting with us! You can see how “The Spirit Within” appears on the cover of *The Crooked Good*, [here](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/the-crooked-good/). Join us on [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/CrookedGoodLaunch/) for the official launch of the brand new, third edition of this classic poetry collection by Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise B. Halfe – Sky Dancer. **Categories:** News **Tags:** artwork, book design, Indigenous art, Indigenous literatures, Kevin Peeace, Louise B. Halfe, Poetry, residential school survivor --- ### [Daniel Heath Justice and Kegedonce Press celebrate the 15th Anniversary of The Way of Thorn and Thunder Trilogy](https://kegedonce.com/daniel-heath-justice-and-kegedonce-press-celebrate-the-15th-anniversary-of-the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder-trilogy/) **Published:** June 24, 2021 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** **Beautifully written, intricately crafted, *[The Way of Thorn and Thunder ](https://kegedonce.com/books/indigenous-futurisms-wonderworks/the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder-trilogy/)*series is an epic Indigenous** **wonderworks (fantasy) series** **on the scale of Le Guin and Tolkien!** Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, publisher and managing editor of Kegedonce Press, on *The Way of Thorn and Thunder:* “It is our only trilogy and our first foray into speculative fiction. … I remember being completely astounded by it when I read the manuscript. There were so many elements that were exciting and innovative and that resonated with me as an Indigenous reader: the powerful female warrior protagonist, the belief system underlying the Kyn, the subversion of the ‘boldly go where no man has gone before’ tropes, the way that gender and sexuality are portrayed in such a natural and accepting way that is consistent with Indigenous cultural concepts, the power of the natural and supernatural. I felt validated and excited by all of that. I was also awed by the depth and magnitude of the world Daniel created in such incredible detail. It feels real and alive. When I finished reading it I remember thinking that it was why I started Kegedonce Press—to provide a stage for beautiful, inspiring, Indigenous literature that is grounded in Indigeneity, that decolonizes, and that is meticulously and lovingly crafted.” **Join Kegedonce Press and Daniel Heath Justice as we mark the 15th Anniversary** **of the publication of** ***Kynship,* Book One of [*The* *Way of Thorn and Thunder*](https://kegedonce.com/books/indigenous-futurisms-wonderworks/the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder-trilogy/).** ## ***The Way of Thorn and Thunder* is now available as a** **[three-book bundle](https://kegedonce.com/books/uncategorized/the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder-trilogy/) at a special price!** **Categories:** News **Tags:** Anniversary sale, Daniel Heath Justice, fantasy, Indigenous Lit, trilogy --- ### [Honours for Ghost Lake!](https://kegedonce.com/honours-for-ghost-lake/) **Published:** June 15, 2021 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Content:** ***Ghost Lake*, Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler’s new collection of interconnected stories receives some literary love!** We are thrilled to announce that *[Ghost Lake](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/)* has been awarded the 2021 [Indigenous Voices Award in Published English Fiction](https://indigenousvoicesawards.org/home-page)! Earlier this spring, it was also listed as a finalist for the Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award in book design, and received [Honourable Mention in their Commercial Fiction Category](https://www.hofferaward.com/Eric-Hoffer-Award-winners.html#commercial). Congratulations to Nathan–this is a fabulous collection! In their citation for *Ghost Lake,* the IVA jurors write: **“We love these stories! Interconnected horror stories based on traditional Anishinaabeg stories all set on an eerie reserve aptly named Ghost Lake? Yes please. Every story surprises. An absolute page-turner, deeply engaging horror stories that leave you breathless. The sheer breadth and range of what Adler has accomplished here is impressive.”** ` In these pages are thirteen offerings from Ghost Lake (a fictional northern Ontario reserve), in which an interrelated cast of characters experiences brushes with the mysterious. Issa lives in fear of having her secrets discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother’s death, Garion wrestles with his sexual inclinations, Fanon struggles against an unexpected winter storm, Kylie fights to make it back to shore, Eadie and Mushkeg share a magical night, Tyner faces brutal violence, and Tyler, Clay, and Dare must make amends to the spirits before it’s too late. At Ghost Lake, the precolonial past is not so distant, history informs the present, and nothing is ever truly lost or destroyed, because the land remembers. *[Ghost Lake](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/)* is a companion volume to Adler’s Indigenous horror novel, *[Wrist](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/wrist/)* (2016, Kegedonce Press). **Want more? Here’s an excerpt from “Incendiaries,” the first story in *Ghost Lake*.** (content warning: minor sexual references, language) … Later that afternoon, Gar returns to the totem pole. None of his friends are hanging around. He does a sweep of the trees; the place is deserted. Perfect. He finds a secluded spot in amongst the bush where he won’t be disturbed. The land slopes upward from here, and he can see the carved faces maybe a thirty yards distance, hidden by the foliage from their knowing smiles. He doesn’t want any witnesses. The fire starts off small. He builds a little log cabin and teepee side by side, each about a foot wide. Stuffs in balled-up lines of ink on crumpled newsprint, then layers sticks in increasing size. He snaps branches into smaller lengths over one knee, and when that doesn’t work, positions one end raised on a stone, and stomps down to break it cleanly in the middle. He wants to see which will burn faster, the log cabin, or the teepee. He lights a strike-anywhere match on the same stone he used as an anchor point to snap branches, and then touches orange flame to bundled paper, here and there, around in a circle, so they catch from all sides. He watches with eagerness as the fire licks the edges of the paper, flaring green, and yellow, catching some of the smaller sticks, then the larger pieces of kindling, until finally the larger branches begin to burn, the warmth of the fire is matched by a growing warmth in his cheeks. A familiar, welcome excitement fills him, a rush of euphoria, his breath comes faster and faster as if he is engaged in some activity more strenuous than simply observing. The growing heat is matched by a growing hardness in his jeans, and pleasant sensations wash through him. He loves this. Loves watching the fire grow, gathering momentum. The log cabin caves in and topples, knocking over the teepee, creating one larger funeral pyre, the individual flames merging to create something larger and altogether more beautiful. He wants the fire to grow, bigger and louder, so the pleasant feelings will also continue to swell. Gar drags over larger and larger branches then stands back in awe as flames devour the timber. From the small seed of a matchhead touched to pieces of newsprint, he created this monster bonfire. The heat makes sweat bead on his forehead, but he won’t step back, refuses to back down, only turning aside to feverishly gather more wood, more logs, more fuel. The branches of a neighbouring tree are arching over the inferno; they blacken and burn, two feet above the tips of the flame, the pyramidal shape creating a focal point of greatest heat, as the smoke rises and curls, spinning centrifugal, sparks pop and fly in all directions as the wind blows, feeding a steady supply of oxygen. The conflagration seems to breathe, inhaling and exhaling as it sucks in more air and the flames burn with greater and greater intensity, producing a steady sound, almost like a growl. Gar moans. It’s so good. So good. He is close. So close. His eyes water from the smoke so he closes them as he listens to the fire snap and roar, feeling heat on his face, his arms, his chest, singeing his bangs. But he doesn’t care. His eyelids flutter, catching glimpses of the curling orange flames, and this only inflames him more, carrying him away. “Ywaacgh!” Gar yelps as a sharp pain interrupts his climax. His pant-leg is on fire! He leaps back from the blaze, slapping at the folded cuff of his jeans. Oof! He falls backwards over a log, and lands flat on his back. From this new perspective, he sees that the nearby tree with over-arching branches is now engulfed, like a massive piece of kindling. His scalp prickles with sweat. Maybe he let the fire get too big? He couldn’t just pee on it. It was much too much, too big for that to help now. He scrambles back and watches the poor tree go up like a living torch, orgasm now overcome by the cosmic power. But something about the sight squares his shoulders, makes him feel the potential for strength in his muscles. This was his fire. The calf where his pant leg caught fire throbs like a reminder, alongside his sore foot from the rusty nail he stepped on earlier in the day, and he looks around to make sure he’s still alone. There is always something to detract from or ruin a near-perfect moment. *Oh shit it’s spreading.* … READ MORE IN THE PAGES OF [GHOST LAKE](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/ghost-lake/) Copyright 2020 Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler and Kegedonce Press. **Categories:** News --- ## Pages ### [Home](https://kegedonce.com/) **Published:** October 16, 2020 **Author:** Pat **Content:** **Ahnee!** Since 1993, Kegedonce Press has been crafting beautiful books that involve Indigenous Peoples at all levels of production. 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Her publications encompass poetry, fiction, non-fiction, radio plays, television and film, libretti, graphic novels, and spoken word. Her teaching and creative work is firmly decolonial—a practice of cultural resurgence, affirmation, and survivance. Kateri is a recipient of a REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award for writing. Her 2015 book of short stories, *The Stone Collection*, was a finalist for the Sarton Literary Book Awards. Her collaborative recording, *A Constellation of Bones*, was nominated for a 2008 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award. She served as the 2011–2012 Poet Laureate for Owen Sound and North Grey. She founded and coordinated the first *Honouring Words: International Indigenous Authors Celebration Tour* in 2003 and co-organized the first *Indigenous Comics Symposium* in 2021. Kateri is also the founder, publisher, and art director for Kegedonce Press. *(Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm*, selected and edited by Dallas Hunt, was released in August 2021. 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In the early years, Renée also took on additional contract positions to broaden her experience. She worked with the local art gallery as a freelance grant writer and volunteer coordinator, and she is an active member of several community committees. Most of all, she is forever grateful that Kateri invited her to be part of Kegedonce Press all those years ago. Renée is honoured to have contributed to the accomplishments Kegedonce has achieved over the years as a small Indigenous press. ![Close-up of a man wearing a blue plaid tweed flat cap and scarf, with black glasses and a newspaper-patterned background.](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/DSC03915-crop-and-colour-1024x1024.jpg "DSC03915 crop and colour - Kegedonce Press")## Richard-Yves Sitoski Richard-Yves Sitoski is a poet of settler descent who lives in Owen Sound, on the lands of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (Treaty Territory 45½). He served as the Poet Laureate of Owen Sound from 2019 to 2023. His poems and reviews have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, including *PRISM*, *The Antigonish Review*, *Arc*, *The Fiddlehead*, *Prairie Fire*, *Train*, and *CAROUSEL*. He was also the Artistic Director of the 2023 Words Aloud Poetry Festival. Richard-Yves makes sounds unheard since the Cretaceous with his guitars as part of the folk duo Deep Blue Honey, alongside his wife Mary. He also belongs to a one-eye cat named Henri, who faithfully wakes him every day at 3 a.m. **Authors:** Pat --- ### [Kegedonce Press Manuscript Submissions Guidelines](https://kegedonce.com/submissions/) **Published:** October 16, 2020 **Author:** Pat **Content:** ## Notice: due to the high volume of submissions we have received, there is currently a backlog of manuscripts under consideration. For this reason our submission window is temporarily closed. Thanks for considering us, and please check in with us from time to time to see when we will reopen to submissions. 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She became a member of the League of Canadian Poets after her first book of poetry-Songs that Untune the Sky. She has a PhD from the University of Maryland and is presently at the University of Western Ontario. Alvernaz Mulcahy’s new book Borderlands & Bloodlines is focused on her indigenous roots-exploring how displacements and re-locations become journeys of necessity. The poems reflect on all our relations where cultures/races and classes touch edges occupying land, sea and sacred spaces. Alvernaz Mulcahy is co-author of several poetry books and various CDs with sound poet P. Kemp including Gathering Voice (2004) and Pinceladas in 2005. She launched Pinceladas (in English and Spanish) at Centro Cultural Canadá-Córdoba, Argentina de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Her most recent publication, Viva la Vida is part of an Anthology of collaborative textual poetry and is based on two poems about Frida Kahlo-mestiza (Alvernaz Mulcahy) and Frida on Exhibit (P. 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Henderson, Jay Odjick --- ### [Featured Authors & Artists](https://kegedonce.com/authors/) **Published:** October 16, 2020 **Author:** Pat **Excerpt:** Explore our collection today and support the artists and authors who make Kegegonce Press a beacon of diverse literary and artistic expression. **Content:** - [All Authors](/plat-cron.php) - [A](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=a) - [B](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=b) - [D](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=d) - [F](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=f) - [H](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=h) - [K](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=k) - [L](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=l) - [M](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=m) - [P](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=p) - [S](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=s) - [V](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=v) - [W](/plat-cron.php?ppma_author_letter=w) #### A - [ Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler ](https://kegedonce.com/author/nathan-adler/ "Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler") - [ Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kateri-akiwenzie-damm/ "Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm") #### B - [ Lesley Belleau ](https://kegedonce.com/author/lesley-belleau/ "Lesley Belleau") - [ Kelsey Borgford ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kelsey-borgford/ "Kelsey Borgford") #### D - [ Deborah Delaronde-Falk ](https://kegedonce.com/author/deborah-delaronde/ "Deborah Delaronde-Falk") - [ Cherie Dimaline ](https://kegedonce.com/author/cherie-dimaline/ "Cherie Dimaline") - [ Leah Dorion ](https://kegedonce.com/author/leah-dorion/ "Leah Dorion") - [ Albert Dumont ](https://kegedonce.com/author/albert-dumont/ "Albert Dumont") - [ Marilyn Dumont ](https://kegedonce.com/author/marilyn-dumont/ "Marilyn Dumont") #### F - [ Cole Forrest ](https://kegedonce.com/author/cole-forrest/ "Cole Forrest") #### H - [ Daniel Heath Justice ](https://kegedonce.com/author/daniel-heath-justice/ "Daniel Heath Justice") - [ Scott B. Henderson ](https://kegedonce.com/author/scott-b-henderson/ "Scott B. Henderson") #### K - [ Kayla Williams ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kayla-williams-1/ "Kayla Williams") - [ Sharon King ](https://kegedonce.com/author/sharon-king/ "Sharon King") #### L - [ D.A. Lockhart ](https://kegedonce.com/author/d-a-lockhart/ "D.A. Lockhart") #### M - [ Emma Metallic ](https://kegedonce.com/author/emma-metallic/ "Emma Metallic") - [ Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith ](https://kegedonce.com/author/christine-miskonoodinkwe-smith/ "Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith") - [ Oliver Moss Warawa McDonald ](https://kegedonce.com/author/oliver-moss-warawa-mcdonald/ "Oliver Moss Warawa McDonald") #### P - [ Aaron Paquette ](https://kegedonce.com/author/aaron-paquette/ "Aaron Paquette") #### S - [ Coltrane Seesequasis ](https://kegedonce.com/author/coltrane-seesequasis/ "Coltrane Seesequasis") - [ Neal Shannacappo ](https://kegedonce.com/author/neal-shannacappo/ "Neal Shannacappo") - [ Smokii Sumac ](https://kegedonce.com/author/smokii-sumac/ "Smokii Sumac") #### V - [ Richard Van Camp ](https://kegedonce.com/author/richard-van-camp/ "Richard Van Camp") #### W - [ Jadyn Williams ](https://kegedonce.com/author/jadyn-williams/ "Jadyn Williams") ## Authors List Default Search Last Name First Name - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Nathan-Adler-1.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/nathan-adler/) [Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler](https://kegedonce.com/author/nathan-adler/ "Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler") Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler is the author of *Ghost Lake*, which won the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award in Published English Fiction, and of *Wrist*, an Indigenous monster story written from the monster’s perspective (both from Kegedonce Press). He is co-editor of *Bawaajigan—Stories of Power*, a dream-themed anthology of Indigenous writers (Exile Editions). He is an artist and filmmaker who works in a variety of mediums, including audio and video, and drawing and painting. Nathan is the first-place winner of an Aboriginal Writing Challenge, and recipient of a Hnatyshyn Reveal award for literature. He has an MFA in Creative Writing (UBC), BFA in Integrated Media (OCAD), and BA in English Literature and Native Studies (Trent). His writing is published in various magazines, blogs, and anthologies. He is a two-spirit, Jewish, Anishinaabe, and member of Lac Des Mille Lacs First Nation. Originally from Ontario, he currently resides in Vancouver. [ ](mailto:creativewriting@kpu.ca)University Teacher at Kwantlen Polytechnic University [ ](https://www.facebook.com/nathan.adler1)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/rivvenrivven/)[ ](https://nathanadlerblog.wordpress.com/) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Kateri-Akiwenzie-Damm-newremini-enhanced.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kateri-akiwenzie-damm/) [Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm](https://kegedonce.com/author/kateri-akiwenzie-damm/ "Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/kateri.akiwenziedamm)[ ](http://www.reverbnation.com/kateriakiwenziedamm#!) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Lesley-Belleau.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/lesley-belleau/) [Lesley Belleau](https://kegedonce.com/author/lesley-belleau/ "Lesley Belleau") [ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-belleau-1a566026) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Borgford-Author-photo-cropped.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kelsey-borgford/) [Kelsey Borgford](https://kegedonce.com/author/kelsey-borgford/ "Kelsey Borgford") [ ](https://www.instagram.com/kelsey_borgford/) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Deborah-Delaronde.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/deborah-delaronde/) [Deborah Delaronde-Falk](https://kegedonce.com/author/deborah-delaronde/ "Deborah Delaronde-Falk") - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/90a441_d14d9e6ec14d42eaa3998aa4f446f368mv2.jpg.avif) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/cherie-dimaline/) [Cherie Dimaline](https://kegedonce.com/author/cherie-dimaline/ "Cherie Dimaline") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cherie-Dimaline/188161724562388)[ ](https://twitter.com/writeoncherie)[ ](https://www.cheriedimaline.com/) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/artist-Leah-Dorion.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/leah-dorion/) [Leah Dorion](https://kegedonce.com/author/leah-dorion/ "Leah Dorion") [ ](mailto:leahdorionart@gmail.com)[ ](https://www.facebook.com/leah.dorion)[ ](https://www.leahdorion.ca) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Albert-Dumont.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/albert-dumont/) [Albert Dumont](https://kegedonce.com/author/albert-dumont/ "Albert Dumont") - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/M-Dumont-photo-smaller.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/marilyn-dumont/) [Marilyn Dumont](https://kegedonce.com/author/marilyn-dumont/ "Marilyn Dumont") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/marilyn.dumont1) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Forrest-author-photo-cropped.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/cole-forrest/) [Cole Forrest](https://kegedonce.com/author/cole-forrest/ "Cole Forrest") [ ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5O7LT1X6wH_KKo6xWnXkAQ&ved=2ahUKEwit18yN-ZaNAxVlGVkFHTSWLOcQ9zB6BAgPEAc&usg=AOvVaw3wp1_O9ATzZA3VaUrXKGeK)[ ](https://ca.linkedin.com/in/cole-forrest-567b85174) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Daniel-Heath-Justice-1.jpeg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/daniel-heath-justice/) [Daniel Heath Justice](https://kegedonce.com/author/daniel-heath-justice/ "Daniel Heath Justice") [ ](mailto:mail@danielheathjustice.com)[ ](https://www.twitter.com/@justicedanielh)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/cherokeehobbit/)[ ](http://danielheathjustice.com/) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Scott-Henderson.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/scott-b-henderson/) [Scott B. Henderson](https://kegedonce.com/author/scott-b-henderson/ "Scott B. Henderson") [ ](https://twitter.com/Ouroboros09)[ ](https://scotthendersonart.wordpress.com) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Sharon-Pics-126.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/sharon-king/) [Sharon King](https://kegedonce.com/author/sharon-king/ "Sharon King") - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Daniel-Lockhart-author-photo-scaled.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/d-a-lockhart/) [D.A. Lockhart](https://kegedonce.com/author/d-a-lockhart/ "D.A. Lockhart") [ ](mailto:daniellockhar@trentu.ca)[ ](https://www.facebook.com/wazhashkpoetry/)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/daniellockhar)[ ](https://wazhashkpoetry.com) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Emma_Author-Photo-credit-Erika-Metallic-cropped-smaller.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/emma-metallic/) [Emma Metallic](https://kegedonce.com/author/emma-metallic/ "Emma Metallic") - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/CMS-author-photo-credit-Susan-Blight-smaller.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/christine-miskonoodinkwe-smith/) [Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith](https://kegedonce.com/author/christine-miskonoodinkwe-smith/ "Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith") [ ](mailto:chrissy.miskonoodinkwesmith@gmail.com)[ ](https://www.facebook.com/Miskonoodinkwe/)[ ](https://x.com/miskonoodinkwe)[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-miskonoodinkwe-smith-b4b86433/)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/miskonoodinkwesmith73/)[ ](https://christineswritingandconsulting.ca) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Author-image-Kits-Beach-smaller.png) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/oliver-moss-warawa-mcdonald/) [Oliver Moss Warawa McDonald](https://kegedonce.com/author/oliver-moss-warawa-mcdonald/ "Oliver Moss Warawa McDonald") - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Paquette-Author-photo-2021-for-site.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/aaron-paquette/) [Aaron Paquette](https://kegedonce.com/author/aaron-paquette/ "Aaron Paquette") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/AaronPaquetteArt)[ ](https://twitter.com/aaronpaquette)[ ](http://www.aaronpaquette.net/) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Coltrane-Seesequasis-author-photo-for-website-scaled.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/coltrane-seesequasis/) [Coltrane Seesequasis](https://kegedonce.com/author/coltrane-seesequasis/ "Coltrane Seesequasis") [ ](https://coltranebooks.com) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Neal-Shannacappo.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/neal-shannacappo/) [Neal Shannacappo](https://kegedonce.com/author/neal-shannacappo/ "Neal Shannacappo") [ ](https://www.instagram.com/nshannacappo/)[ ](https://allmylinks.com/nshannacappo) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Smokii-Sumac.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/smokii-sumac/) [Smokii Sumac](https://kegedonce.com/author/smokii-sumac/ "Smokii Sumac") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/smokiisumacofficial/)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/smokiisumac/) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Richard-Van-Camp.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/richard-van-camp/) [Richard Van Camp](https://kegedonce.com/author/richard-van-camp/ "Richard Van Camp") [ ](https://www.facebook.com/richard.v.camp)[ ](https://twitter.com/richardvancamp)[ ](https://www.youtube.com/user/richardvancamp)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/richardvancamp/)[ ](https://richardvancamp.com) - [ ![Photograph of author/illustrator Kayla Williams](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/kayla-credit-jennifer-rideout-cropped.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kayla-williams-1/) [Kayla Williams](https://kegedonce.com/author/kayla-williams-1/ "Kayla Williams") - [ ![Close-up of a smiling woman with long dark hair wearing a denim jacket against a blue graffiti wall.](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/Jadyn-Williams-by-Devon-Featherstone-cropped-scaled.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/jadyn-williams/) [Jadyn Williams](https://kegedonce.com/author/jadyn-williams/ "Jadyn Williams") **Authors:** Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Lesley Belleau, Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, Kelsey Borgford, Deborah Delaronde-Falk, Cherie Dimaline, Leah Dorion, Albert Dumont, Marilyn Dumont, Cole Forrest, Daniel Heath Justice, Scott B. Henderson, Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, Basil Johnston, Sharon King, D.A. Lockhart, Emma Metallic, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, Oliver Moss Warawa McDonald, Jay Odjick, Aaron Paquette, Coltrane Seesequasis, Neal Shannacappo, Keeshig Spade and Family, Smokii Sumac, Richard Van Camp --- ### [About Kegedonce Press](https://kegedonce.com/about/) **Published:** September 15, 2020 **Author:** Pat **Content:** Since 1993 Kegedonce Press has been crafting beautiful books that involve Indigenous Peoples at all levels of production. We support the enterprise of Indigenous writers, artists, graphic illustrators, designers, editors, printers and others in related fields. Founded in 1993 by Anishinaabe writer Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Kegedonce is committed to the publication of beautifully written and designed Indigenous literature, both nationally and internationally. Kegedonce Press has published works by some of the most celebrated and widely known Indigenous writers and storytellers in Canada, including Louise Bernice Halfe, Cherie Dimaline, Basil Johnston, Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, Marilyn Dumont, Daniel Health Justice, Nathan Adler, Aaron Paquette, Sharron Proulx-Turner, Gregory Scofield, and Richard Van Camp, among many others. Indigenous owned and operated, Kegedonce Press is based at Neyaashiinigmiing, on the traditional territory of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation in Ontario, Canada. Our Publisher and Managing Editor is Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, Saugeen Ojibway Nation; our Publishing Manager is Renee K. Abram, of the Oneida Nation (Onyota’a:ka), Wolf clan. ## Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm speaks with the Storykeepers Podcast about the press. (Please note: Kegedonce Press is not able to recommend sensitivity readers at this time.) **Authors:** Pat --- ### [Books](https://kegedonce.com/books/) **Published:** September 15, 2020 **Author:** Pat **Content:** **Welcome to the Kegedonce Press Bookstore!** Feel free to browse through our selections page by page, or use the menu to the left to search for books by author, category, or Indigenous culture. You can add any book to your cart and check out easily using PayPal. Please note that it takes about two weeks, on average, for books to arrive. **Authors:** Pat --- ### [In Memoriam](https://kegedonce.com/in-memoriam/) **Published:** March 2, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Content:** - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Basil-Johnston-1.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/basil-johnston/) [Basil Johnston](https://kegedonce.com/author/basil-johnston/ "Basil Johnston") **It is with great sadness and respect that Kegedonce Press says a fond “baamaapii gwabmin” to Basil H. Johnston, our dear friend, renowned author, celebrated storyteller, tireless promoter of the Anishinaabe language, and much loved member of the Kegedonce Press family as he makes his journey across the path of stars. It has been our great joy and honour to have worked with Basil over the past years to share his work with the public. Words cannot adequately express our gratitude for Basil’s generosity, humour, straightforwardness, and laughter. We hold many wonderful memories of him both personally and professionally and know that our lives, and the lives of his many friends and readers, were enriched for having known him. Basil, we will miss you deeply. K’zaugin and chi megwetch for the tremendous legacy you have left us all. Until we meet again… The Kegedonce Press Family—Sept. 10, 2015** Back in 1968 a grade 5 student, after studying Indians in depth for five weeks, asked Basil Johnston, a visitor to the school, “Is that all there is to Indians, Sir?”Since that time Basil Johnston wrote over 15 books in English and 5 in Ojibway to show that there is much more to North American life than social organization, hunting and fishing, food preparation, clothing, dwellings and transportation. Basil Johnston was an esteemed Anishinaabe writer, storyteller, language teacher and scholar. He was born in Wasauksing First Nation in 1929, and was a member of the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation. Johnston was awarded the Order of Ontario, three honorary doctorates, and the 2013 OAC Aboriginal Arts Award. Among the books that Basil wrote are *Ojibway Heritage, Indian School Days, The Manitous* and *Crazy Dave*. In addition he has written numerous articles that have been published in newspapers, anthologies and periodicals. For his work, he has received the Order of Ontario and Honourary Doctorates from the University of Toronto and Laurentian University. In June 2013, Basil Johnston was awarded the Aboriginal Arts Award from the Ontario Arts Council. Read about it here. 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Published December 2019. **Content:** [Read an excerpt from Keeshig and the Ojibwe Pterodactyls](#) “On a hot summer day, a young Anishinabe boy visits the shores of Gitchee Gumee with his mother. Nanaboozhoo, their teacher, is before them, presenting himself as a mass of land that stretches across the horizon. As they visit, Keeshig tells his mother about what he calls “the Ojibwe pterodactyls” that live with Nanaboozhoo. Keeshig surprises his mom by sharing that the Ojibwe pterodactyls are the Thunderbirds, and that they are the heartbeat of Nanaboozhoo. Keeshig’s mom is so happy and grateful to hear his story and gives him a big hug, letting him know that he is her heart. Keeshig’s story, transcribed by his mother, is accompanied by stunningly beautiful colour illustrations by his father, Robert Spade, and his brother, Kiniw Spade. This remarkably beautiful children’s picture book is a true family effort! Ages 3 – 7.” **Product categories:** Children's **Product tags:** Keeshig Spade and Celeste Pedri-Spade **Authors:** Keeshig Spade and Family --- ### [Honour Earth Mother](https://kegedonce.com/books/honour-earth-mother/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Mino-audjaudauh Mizzu-kummik-quae. Essays and Stories by Basil Johnston. Published July 2003. **Content:** “*Honour Earth Mother* was written in the hope that it would help restore some of the affection and reverence that the Indigenous people had for the land. For our ancestors the earth was a holy place, made so by the act of creation of the Great Mystery; it is the dwelling place of the manitous and spirits and is the repository of our grandparents’ bones. It is a place of revelation that has yielded all that men and women have come to know and still has more secrets and mysteries to pass on to those who watch and listen. *Honour Earth Mother* is an invitation to go into the woods and meadow, mountains, valleys and seaside, to watch miracles unfold, to listen to nature’s symphonies, to feel the pulse of the earth, to take in the fragrances, to taste the nectars, and to sense the awesome.” **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Basil Johnston **Authors:** Basil Johnston --- ### [Wrist](https://kegedonce.com/books/wrist/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Debut novel by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, an Indigenous monster story. Published May 2016. **Content:** `Read an Excerpt from Wrist` “In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family’s dark history, Church must race to protect the secrets buried deep in bones and blood. Set in the fictional town of Sterling and Ghost Lake Reserve, *Wrist* is Nathan Adler’s debut novel. Don’t miss *Ghost Lake*, the companion volume to *Wrist*! ## ***Wrist* is now available as an audiobook, narrated by Wesley French and Simon Lee Phillips. Look for the *Wrist* audiobook at:** Scribd: Audible: `` audiobooks.com: **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks **Product tags:** Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler **Authors:** Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler --- ### [Ghost Lake](https://kegedonce.com/books/ghost-lake/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Award winning short-story collection with an interconnected cast of characters. Mysteries, monsters and Manitous. Published December 2020. **Content:** [Read an excerpt from Ghost Lake](#) **Winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award in Published English Prose! Congratulations, Nathan!** *Ghost Lake* was also a finalist for the 2021 Eric Hoffer da Vinci Eye Award in book design. It received Honourable Mention in their Commercial Fiction Category. “Pyromaniacs, vigilantes, mysterious phenomena, prehistoric beasts, cryptid species, grave robbers and ghosts… the stories of *Ghost Lake* feature a cast of interrelated characters and their brushes with the supernatural, the Spirit World, and with creatures of Ojibwe legend. Issa lives in fear of having her secret discovered, Aanzheyaawin haunts the roads seeking vengeance, Zaude searches for clues to her brother’s death, Garion wrestles with his sexual inclinations, Eadie and Mushkeg share a magical night, Tyner faces brutal violence, and Tyler, Clay, and Dare must make amends to the spirits before it’s too late. At Ghost Lake, the precolonial past is not so distant, history informs the present, and nothing is ever truly lost or destroyed because the land remembers. *Ghost Lake* is a companion volume to Adler’s Indigenous horror novel, *Wrist* (2016, Kegedonce Press). **“We love these stories! Interconnected horror stories based on traditional Anishinaabeg stories all set on an eerie reserve aptly named Ghost Lake? Yes please. Every story surprises. An absolute page-turner, deeply engaging horror stories that leave you breathless. The sheer breadth and range of what Adler has accomplished here is impressive.”** —Jurors’ citation, 2021 Indigenous Voices Awards **Author Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler reads from *Ghost Lake* in four short videos on the [Kegedonce Press YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4MjIgYTKjUGfTad59-rUBA/videos). Check it out!** **Read Nathan’s interview about Ghost Lake with Rrampt** [here](https://www.rrampt.com/nathan-niigan-noodin-adler-writes-indigenous-horror-stories-on-the-folklore-from-his-youth-33602). ### *Ghost Lake* is now available in e-book format! Find it at the following links or wherever you buy your e-books. #### Search for ISBN 9781928120384 Kobo: Scribd: **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks **Product tags:** Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler **Authors:** Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler --- ### [Aurora’s Journey](https://kegedonce.com/books/auroras-journey/) **Published:** June 27, 2025 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** Aurora is a brave and resourceful Inuk girl. When her family goes missing while on a hunting trip, she embarks on a perilous mission to find them. Her triumph becomes an inspiration to her community. Beautifully illustrated by the author. **Content:** [Read an excerpt of Aurora’s Journey](#) Aurora is a brave and resourceful Inuk girl. When her family goes missing while on a hunting trip, she embarks on a perilous mission to find them. In her travels Aurora must face both the harsh Arctic elements and her own fears, but she does not do so alone: she finds allies in a mother polar bear, Mama Nanuk, and her cubs. Once she is home and reunited with her parents, Aurora’s story of grit and determination becomes an inspiration to the people in her village. Beautifully illustrated by the author, *Aurora’s Journey* is a celebration of individual resilience in the face of adversity. All great stories written by Inuit authors have that quality of Inukness to them. Kayla Williams continues that fine tradition of weaving our archetypal truths for the world to see and marvel at our common humanity. Aurora, in setting out to find her family, befriends a mother bear, and remembers anâna’s and atâta’s teachings and learns about survival and comes to her own in the beautifully savage wilderness of Nunatsiavut. —Jaypeetee Arnakak, author of *The Woman and Her Bear Cub *Aurora’s Journey* is a wonderfully illustrated book filled with beautiful depictions of Northern lifestyles and family bonds. Its celebration of cultural knowledge is a core practice within our communities and encourages Aurora’s bravery and strength. The unique story presents us all with the vital practice of examining the land and its ever-changing elements, only to challenge Aurora so that she must rely on the cultural knowledge and advice her ancestors have passed down to her. Kayla Williams has created an extraordinary work that I could read over and over again. *—*Sharon King, author of *Amik **Product categories:** Children's **Product tags:** adventure, children's book, Inuit books, Inuit culture, Labrador, Nunatsiavut, survival, the North **Authors:** Kayla Williams --- ### [The Land Speaks](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-land-speaks/) **Published:** May 21, 2026 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** In The Land Speaks, a young girl is taught to hear the land by her mosôm, who accompanies her throughout the seasons to her special spot. Every season bears its gifts, and these gifts will stay with her all her life—even after she returns to the woods without her mosôm, for no-one is alone under the open Prairie sky, in the forest’s embrace, or in the company of our animal teachers **Content:** [Read an excerpt of The Land Speaks](#) ***Every season carries a gift*** When a young girl visits her special place on the land with her mosôm, she learns that every season carries a gift. Together they greet the land, listen to it, learn its lessons in reciprocity and with gratitude, and offer tobacco in thanks. As the seasons change, so too does the girl’s relationship with her grandfather. Even when she must return to the land alone, she discovers that his teachings remain with her—in the sky, in the ground and in the animals all around her. *The Land Speaks* is a gentle, poetic story about love, loss, and the teachings we carry forward. **Product categories:** Children's **Product tags:** children's book, Cree author, Cree illustrations, Indigenous, Indigenous books, Jadyn Williams, picture book **Authors:** Jadyn Williams --- ### [Zegaajimo: Indigenous Horror Fiction](https://kegedonce.com/books/zegaajimo-indigenous-horror-fiction/) **Published:** August 20, 2024 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Zegaajimo, Ojibwe for to tell a scary story, brings together eleven thrilling and chilling horror tales, many drawing on Traditional Stories, from some of the deadliest Indigenous writers across Turtle Island and the territories now known as Canada. It is edited by Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler and Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. **Content:** [Read an Excerpt of Zegaajimo](#) **You never know what’s hunting you, while you’re hunting it…** Eleven of the deadliest writers from across Turtle Island have crafted stories for you calculated to chill, thrill, and kindle your worst imaginings. *Zegaajimo* brings together tales of monsters and the macabre, terrifying transformations, strange places and unexpected wonders. These stories warn of billionaires with hidden intentions, spark vigilance for ominous figures that might appear on doorsteps, and caution you to let the river keep what belongs to it. But these stories of supernatural settings and dreadful deeds are more than speculative fiction, they are also reminders that monsters are already in our midst, that the known can be just as frightening as the unknown, and that the slightest mistakes can have dire consequences. Read these tales alone to yourself, or better yet share them with friends—especially around a fire on a dark winter’s night, when all you can hear is the cracking of branches, and the wind in the trees is as cold as your sweat. **Horror is Indigenous!** - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Kateri-Akiwenzie-Damm-newremini-enhanced.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/kateri-akiwenzie-damm/) [Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm](https://kegedonce.com/author/kateri-akiwenzie-damm/ "Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm") Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is a member of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation, on the Saugeen Peninsula in Ontario. Kateri is an Assistant Professor, teaching Creative Writing, Indigenous Literatures and Oral Traditions in the English Department at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. She has taught creative writing and Indigenous literatures at the University of Manitoba, the Banff Centre’s Aboriginal Arts Program, and the En’owkin International School of Writing in partnership with the University of Victoria. Her publications encompass poetry, fiction, non-fiction, radio plays, television and film, libretti, graphic novels, and spoken word. Her teaching and creative work is firmly decolonial, a practice of cultural resurgence, affirmation and survivance. She is a recipient of a REVEAL Indigenous Arts Award for writing, her 2015 book of short stories, *The Stone Collection*, was a finalist for the Sarton Literary Book Awards, and her collaborative recording *A Constellation of Bones* was a nominee for a 2008 Canadian Aboriginal Music Award. Kateri was the 2011–2012 Poet Laureate for Owen Sound and North Grey. She founded and coordinated the first Honouring Words: International Indigenous Authors Celebration Tour in 2003 and initiated and was a co-organizer for the first Indigenous Comics Symposium in 2021. She is the founder, publisher, and art director for Kegedonce Press. *(Re)Generation: The Poetry of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm*, selected and edited by Dallas Hunt, will be released in August 2021. She is currently completing work on a new collection of poetry and a collection of humourous short stories. [ ](https://www.facebook.com/kateri.akiwenziedamm)[ ](http://www.reverbnation.com/kateriakiwenziedamm#!) - [ ![](https://kegedonce.com/wp-content/uploads/author-Nathan-Adler-1.jpg) ](https://kegedonce.com/author/nathan-adler/) [Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler](https://kegedonce.com/author/nathan-adler/ "Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler") [ ](mailto:creativewriting@kpu.ca)University Teacher at Kwantlen Polytechnic University [ ](https://www.facebook.com/nathan.adler1)[ ](https://www.instagram.com/rivvenrivven/)[ ](https://nathanadlerblog.wordpress.com/) **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks **Product tags:** Anthology, horror, Indigenous, Indigenous books, Indigenous literatures, Short Fiction, Thriller **Authors:** Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler --- ### [Angel Wing Splash Pattern: the 20th Anniversary Edition](https://kegedonce.com/books/angel-wing-splash-pattern-special-20th-anniversary-edition/) **Published:** September 30, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Tales from Tlicho territory, from master storyteller Richard Van Camp. Published September 2020. **Content:** **Celebrating 20 years of Richard Van Camp’s bestselling short story collection!** [Read an excerpt from Angel Wing Splash Pattern: the 20th Anniversary Edition](#) Richard Van Camp reads from the first story in *Angel Wing Splash Pattern*: [check it out here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaQ-zwM1p9I) With a new introduction by the author and two new graphic-novel style stories! The stories of *Angel Wing Splash Pattern* are playful, moving, and starkly honest in their portrayal of contemporary Indigenous life. Here is where the stories began for many of Van Camp’s most beloved characters, including Larry Sole from *The Lesser Blessed*. There are other voices here, too—other secrets and stories from communities across the north and the south. They are linked by themes of hope, hunger, and the spirit of friendship. *Angel Wing Splash Pattern* is where Richard Van Camp’s love of the short story began. In this, his first published short story collection, he demonstrates the range of his talent and the pursuit of excellence in his craft as a writer and storyteller. ### Angel Wing Splash Pattern is available as an e-book! Find your copy at: **Apple**: **Kobo**: **Scribd**: **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Studies **Product tags:** Richard Van Camp **Authors:** Richard Van Camp, Scott B. Henderson --- ### [Counting at Kits Beach](https://kegedonce.com/books/counting-at-kits-beach/) **Published:** April 10, 2024 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Content:** [Read an excerpt of Counting at Kits Beach](#) Counting is easy and fun with *Counting at Kits Beach*. Cree author and artist Oliver McDonald’s brightly colourful pictures invite us to look and count all the different things at the beach. Then come back another day and count all over again! Children ages three to six will love *Counting at Kits Beach*! *Counting at Kits Beach* instructs readers to observe the landscape of Kits (Kitsilano) Beach, Vancouver, through the art style of Oliver McDonald’s Plains Cree style illustrations. The book starts with ten beings highlighted in the landscape and counts down to one and encourages readers to count back to one. The unique style and vibrant colours of McDonald’s illustrations make this a fun and engaging book for young readers and their families. The durable board book format makes it fun for young fingers, too! **Product categories:** Children's **Product tags:** board book, British Columbia, children's book, Cree art style, Indigenous, Indigenous books, picture book **Authors:** Oliver Moss Warawa McDonald --- ### [A Gentle Habit](https://kegedonce.com/books/a-gentle-habit/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Short stories by critically acclaimed author Cherie Dimaline. Published December 2015. **Content:** `Read an excerpt from A Gentle Habit` From the acclaimed, award-winning author of *The Marrow Thieves.* This collection of brilliantly written stories was inspired by American Poet Charles Bukowski, who wrote, “In between the punctuating agonies, life is such a gentle habit.” Cherie Dimaline, author of *The Marrow Thieves* and *Empire of Wild*, follows this theme of extraordinary ordinariness in these six short stories. *A Gentle Habit* focuses on the addictions of a diverse group of characters attempting normalcy in an unnatural world. `` **Product categories:** Fiction **Product tags:** Cherie Dimaline **Authors:** Cherie Dimaline --- ### [you are enough: love poems for the end of the world](https://kegedonce.com/books/you-are-enough-love-poems-for-the-end-of-the-world/) **Published:** October 15, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** this one is simply for all of our love, which can never be wrong Published December 2018. **Content:** ### Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English! [Read an excerpt from you are enough: love poems for the end of the world](#) “In his debut poetry collection *you are enough: love poems for the end of the world*, Smokii Sumac has curated a selection of works from two years of a near daily poetry practice. What began as a sort of daily online poetry journal using the hashtag #haikuaday, has since transformed into a brilliant collection of storytelling drawing upon Indigenous literary practice, and inspired by works like Billy Ray Belcourt’s *This Wound is a World*, and Tenille Campbell’s *\#IndianLovePoems*. With sections dealing with recovery from addiction and depression, coming home through ceremony, and of course, as the title suggests, on falling in and out of love, Sumac brings the reader through two years of life as a Ktunaxa Two-Spirit person. In this moving collection, Sumac addresses the grief of being an Indigenous person in Canada, shares timely (and sometimes hilarious) musings on consent, sex, and gender, introduces readers to people and places he has loved and learned from, and through it all, helps us all come to know that we are enough, just as we are. Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award in Published Poetry in English and short-listed for the 2020 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.” **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Poetry **Product tags:** Smokii Sumac **Authors:** Smokii Sumac --- ### [Sitting by the rapids](https://kegedonce.com/books/sitting-by-the-rapids/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** "Gentle words full of love and powerful energy." —Maria Campbell. Published December 2018. **Content:** [Read an excerpt from Sitting By The Rapids](#) “Dumont’s poems are raw, direct reflections on painful experience and the strength and hope that arises from facing and overcoming them. They offer insight into the mind of an Indigenous man who lives with severe chronic pain and who found the strength through spirituality and poetry to put a life of alcohol abuse behind him forever. This poetry is powerful and emotional; it exposes the heart of a strong, heroic man who has faced tremendous difficulties and prevailed. Dumont writes, “I take seriously my belief that medicine of extraordinary healing power is found in the verses of a poet who puts words together for the purpose of bringing peace and serenity to people in want of it. The counsels and poetry of a person living with pain are special and more meaningful to an individual in the throes of heartache.”” **Product categories:** Poetry **Product tags:** Albert Dumont **Authors:** Albert Dumont --- ### [That Tongued Belonging](https://kegedonce.com/books/that-tongued-belonging/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** "Thank you Marilyn for these gifts." —Louise Bernice Halfe **Content:** From award-winning Métis poet Marilyn Dumont comes *That Tongued Belonging*, a collection of poems which search for acceptance in language, culture, love and landscape. These poems celebrate the humour and tenacity of Indigenous women, lament the death of a mother and recall the degradation of Indigenous women, while challenging accepted ideas of love, age and femininity. *That Tongued Belonging* won the 2007 McNally Robinson Aboriginal Poetry Book of the Year Award and the 2007 Aboriginal Book of the Year Award. “Marilyn Dumont articulates, touches and settles the nerve of Cree. The reader wanders through the patched quilt life of families, of communities, of relatives and of the Cree nation itself. Always, we are immersed in ancient Cree ways as expressed in Cree-borrowed English. Brilliantly and lyrically presented we are forever reminded that Cree culture, Cree people have not been eradicated, quite the contrary, through Dumont’s *that tongued belonging* we celebrate the renaissance, the transformation and the continuum of the poetics, being and heroism of the Cree.” –Lee Maracle, author of *Bobbi Lee* “Everywhere wind-blown leaves turn reveal acimowina to this story-sharer she brings reality into being brings the heart to the ear. Thank you Marilyn for these gifts.” –Louise Bernice Halfe, Sky Dancer, author of [*Blue Marrow*](https://kegedonce.com/books/poetry/blue-marrow/) **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Poetry **Product tags:** Marilyn Dumont **Authors:** Marilyn Dumont --- ### [Slam Coalkan Performance Poetry: the Condor and the Eagle Meet](https://kegedonce.com/books/slam-coalkan-performance-poetry-the-condor-and-the-eagle-meet/) **Published:** April 12, 2022 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** Digitally enhanced anthology of Indigenous poetry from North and South America. Published May 2022. **Content:** ## A Cross-Continental Roar! [Read an excerpt from Slam Coalkan](#) In 2021, seventeen Indigenous spoken word artists from North and South America performed their works at Festival of the Peripheries (FLUP) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) in Toronto, Canada. This anthology, featuring poems from each of the performers, is the result of this remarkable cross-border collaboration. Digitally enhanced with QR codes, *Slam Coalkan* links readers to the poets’ performances at the festivals. From these pages the poets sing their hopes and their dreams. These are the voices of resistance, voices that speak out against the evils of colonialism, racism, transphobia, and genocide. Voices that cry, shout, whisper and roar passionate messages to the world. **Don’t miss your chance to see and hear this remarkable international collaboration of slam poetry and performance!** “This collection is an invitation, a re-focusing, and a collaboration long overdue. Persistent and affirming, the poets pull our gaze away from centered norms of power, empire, and colony. In this, every poem is a world, unique to the storyteller, diverse and full, maintained as living response to the brutality of oppression. Every page is necessary and compelling – an awakening, and a ‘body that transmutes hate in song.’” —Tyler Pennock, author of *Bones* “This collection breathes life into ancient dreams of Coalkan, a prophecy of the Condor of the South meeting the Eagle of the North brought forth by Indigenous peoples of what we currently call the americas. Born out of connection, it is striking to read and witness work of slam poetry—poetry created for the stage to reach from the blood of the poet into the beating hearts of the audience, come together to honour the deeply rooted Indigenous identities of the poets offering their work to us in this collection. Take the time to sit with these words, to scan the QR codes and listen to the voice and breath of the poets as they honour a prophetic call. Imagine what futures can come of these threads of energy pulling us over continents, connecting us to each other, just as the water of the earth reaches from rivers to lakes to oceans and back again, just as the migration of great winged creatures teaches us. We are not separate from our Indigenous siblings and kin throughout the world, and this collection, importantly the first of its kind, allows us to witness the calls from brilliant Indigenous voices across time and space to come together in this changing world and become the dreams our ancestors dreamed for us.” —Smokii Sumac, author of *you are enough: love poems for the end of the world*. **Slam Coalkan is edited by Jennifer Alicia Murrin and Renata Tupinambá.** **Cover art: Philip Cote III, “Flood Story” (top) and Gustavo Caboco, “Returno à terra” (bottom).** **Kegedonce Press is grateful to Toronto International Festival of Authors and Festa Literária das Periferias for their collaboration on this publication!** **Product categories:** Poetry **Product tags:** Decolonial, Festa Literária das Periferias, Indigenous literatures, international, Performance Poetry, poetry, Slam, The Americas, Toronto International Festival of Authors **Authors:** Richard-Yves Sitoski --- ### [The Crooked Good](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-crooked-good/) **Published:** March 16, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Know my child, the mountains make your dreams. Keep decent and proper. Serve your guest tea, scones, Never forget you’re Cree. Published July 2021. **Content:** [Read an excerpt from The Crooked Good](#) Poetic tales that unfold through the voice of *ê-kwêskît*, Turn-Around Woman–tales imbued with vital themes of Indigenous experience: culture, language, colonialism, residential schools and more. The poems of *The Crooked Good* are threaded throughout with words, phrases and verses in Cree; its personal stories framed within the fireside tales of Rolling Head Woman, who is both nightmare and culture hero. Evocative, moving, and powerful poetry from a master poet. This brand new third edition (2021) has been beautifully redesigned and includes a new foreword by Kimberley Anderson, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Relationships at the University of Guelph. Louise Bernice Halfe was named Parliamentary Poet for Canada in February of 2021. **Praise for *The Crooked Good:*** “For those who might not know, you cannot be a student of Indigenous poetry without reading the words of Louise Halfe, and *The Crooked Good* is one of those books that needs to be near the top of your reading list. And for those, like myself, who have returned to this book many years after the first reading, what a gift and a blessing. Once again, after all these years. There are stories that are fossilized in their time and place, and then there are those stories that renew themselves and renew us, too, each time we return to them. Louise Halfe has given us one of those renewing stories. It is, too, a story about stories: how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, as individuals and cultures, can enrich our sense of self with the sacred, or how they can threaten to destroy and consume the good in us. Sometimes when the stories we tell ourselves have been colonised by others, we become meat in their gaping jaws. And then there is *The Crooked Good*, a song-story of violence and resilience, of lust and love, of the persistence of what’s ancient and the necessity of the ancient for our contemporary lives. Though the path we walk be a crooked one, always too, it is a good path to walk. *Hay hay*, Sky Dancer!” —Randy Lundy, author of *Field Notes for the Self* “Cree mythoi animate Louise Halfe’s lustrous poetry. They are the existential materials of her works and worlds, and in their arrangements of consciousness, they assemble the present. All presents. In Halfe’s texts, one is compelled/pressed by these forms of apprehending. First, they structure the poetry and then they restructure the reader, the listener. Line after relentless line, thought after shattering thought, one encounters all that is lethal and all that is generative. The brilliant power of Halfe’s poetry is that it contains both the wound and its medicine—alive.” —Dionne Brand, poet, novelist, essayist. “The best poetry makes the world larger, more vivid. It makes our crooked good hearts expand with understanding, compassion and vital lifeforce even while it tells us how it is, how it can be. This book enlarges. It expands our world. Energizes. More than good, in this brilliant and moving collection, Sky Dancer Louise B. Halfe makes the good larger.” —Gary Barwin, author of *Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted* Celebrate the launch of *The Crooked Good* with us. Visit, like, and share the [Book Launch Page](https://www.facebook.com/The-Crooked-Good-Book-Launch-112719091052450/?ref=pages_you_manage) on Facebook! **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Poetry **Product tags:** Louise Bernice Halfe—Sky Dancer **Authors:** Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer --- ### [Blue Marrow](https://kegedonce.com/books/blue-marrow/) **Published:** February 5, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** A beautifully redesigned new edition of the critically acclaimed poetry collection by Louise Bernice Halfe. Published December 2020. **Content:** [Read an excerpt from Blue Marrow](#) “The voices of *Blue Marrow* sing out from the past and the present. They are the voices of the Grandmothers, both personal and legendary. They share their wisdom, their lives, their dreams. They proclaim the injustice of colonialism, the violence of proselytism, and the horrors of the residential school system with an honesty that cuts to the marrow. Speaking in both English and Cree, these are voices of hopefulness, strength, and survivance. *Blue Marrow* is a tribute to the indomitable power of Indigenous women of the past and of the present day. More than twenty years since its first publication, this critically acclaimed collection is available in a redesigned edition, including an all-new interview with its celebrated author, Louise Bernice Halfe—Sky Dancer.” **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Poetry **Product tags:** Cree, Indigenous, Louise Bernice Halfe—Sky Dancer, oral_traditions, poetry **Authors:** Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, Leah Dorion --- ### [Once the Smudge is Lit](https://kegedonce.com/books/once-the-smudge-is-lit/) **Published:** December 1, 2023 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Content:** `Read an excerpt from Once the Smudge is Lit` Ceremony, community and connection – the poems of *Once the Smudge is Lit* carry the reader into deeply spiritual elements of Nishnaabe/Ojibwe culture. Co-written by Cole Forrest and Kelsey Bogford, the poetry of *Once the Smudge is Lit* highlights the Indigenous experience in post-colonial times through explorations of themes ranging from love to community. Bogford’s and Forrest’s verses seek to open multiple windows into the experience of being Nishaabe in the modern world. A profound sense of movement and continuity is emphasized by Tessa Pizzale’s beautifully evocative illustrations, which include a line of smudge smoke flowing from page to page. **Expectations** i swim to the bottom of the ocean to try and recreate the world i am tired of hurting my fist gripped tight onto the mud as i held my breath sand fell through my fingers as the waves washed it away mother earth spoke to me she told me all that I need is already here on the surface *look a little deeper,* *love a little longer* —Kelsey Borgford, *Once the Smudge is Lit* **Brief Time** my body’s brief time in this life yearns for your soft skin I’ll lend you my heart I’ll melt it down and rub the oils on your chest to help you breathe again I’ll light a smudge from my heart and wash your hair in the smoke as it plumes in the moonlight the water will see only us as we rest tangled in this life together rest with me on the mattress we’ll make a cradleboard together we’ll sew our secrets into the bed frame —Cole Forrest, *Once the Smudge is Lit* **Kelsey Borgford** is a Nbisiing Nishnaabekwe from the Marten clan. She is an emerging author, passionate about utilizing writing as a tool to revitalize cultural connections. After losing her Gokomis-baa in 2014, Kelsey sought out a means of connection with her grandmother and found that connection to her through the arts. Kelsey’s work aims to pass along cultural traditions and identity. Her work is predominantly centered in the practice of beading and writing. She has a children’s book, *What’s in a Bead*, forthcoming from Second Story Press. In all aspects of her creativity, Kelsey draws inspiration from her culture, her mother, her community, and relatives in the natural world. **Cole Forrest** is an Ojibwe filmmaker and programmer from Nipissing First Nation. They have written and directed independent short films that have been screened at film festivals including imagineNATIVE, TQFF, and the Vancouver International Film Festival. Cole is a recipient of the Ken and Ann Watts Memorial Scholarship and of the James Bartleman Indigenous Youth Creative Writing Award. They were the 2019 recipient of the imagineNATIVE + LIFT Film Mentorship and a 2020 Artist in Residence as a part of the Sundance Native Filmmakers Lab.Cole has supported programming at festivals including TIFF, imagineNATIVE, and Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. They are a graduate of the Video Design and Production program at George Brown College. Cole is currently writing their first feature film. They are grateful to represent their community in all artistic pursuits. Illustrator **Tessa Pizzale** is a Moose Cree Indigenous Artist located in North Bay, Ontario. She is currently working on her Bachelors of Fine arts at Nipissing University. Tessa creates work pieces through digital and art pieces. She also works on creating leather regalia belts. **Product categories:** Poetry **Product tags:** Anishinaabek, ceremony, Indigenous, Indigenous books, Indigenous literatures, poetry **Authors:** Kelsey Borgford, Cole Forrest --- ### [North of Middle Island](https://kegedonce.com/books/north-of-middle-island/) **Published:** June 9, 2023 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Content:** [Read an excerpt of North of Middle Island](#) *North of Middle Island* journeys to the southernmost tip of the territories held by Canada. The first section of the book captures, in verse, the spirit of the relatively isolated, sparsely populated community of Pelee Island. The pieces explore contemporary Indigenous experience in the natural and built environments of the island and surrounding waters. The second section is comprised of an epic poem entitled “Piper” that tells, in traditional Anglo-Saxon style, a new Lenape myth of how Deerwoman (Ahtuhxkwe) comes to Pelee Island. The events of this epic tale are loosely based on the infamous professional wrestler and actor Rowdy Roddy Piper’s time on the island, and the events of Wrestlemania XII, Piper’s notorious “Backlot Brawl” with fellow wrestler Goldust (Nkuli Punkw). Follow acclaimed Moravian of the Thames First Nation poet D.A. Lockhart on this lyrical, epic journey into the unique culture and landscapes that lie just *North of Middle Island.* “Part border report, part vision, Lockhart’s new poems transport the reader via the momentum of a restless, agile imagination. Whether exploring lyric impressions of our natural world, or imagining the mythic dimensions of a local conflict, *North of Middle Island* is abundant, dramatic, passionate and ambitious in its gifts of observation and story-telling.” —David O’Meara, author of *Masses on Radar* **Product categories:** Poetry **Product tags:** D.A. Lockhart, epic poetry, Indigenous books, language, Lenape, Pelee Island, poetry **Authors:** D.A. Lockhart --- ### [Through the Eyes of Asunder](https://kegedonce.com/books/through-the-eyes-of-asunder/) **Published:** May 13, 2022 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Debut poetry collection by Nakawe author and artist NShannacappo. Published June 2022. **Content:** `Read an excerpt from Through the Eyes of Asunder` From epic ventures into mythic and fantastical tales to the everyday trials of getting the laundry done, NShannacappo’s debut poetry collection follows many journeys through darkness to hope, healing and heroism. Pure and hauntingly beautiful turns of phrase sound out in the voices of angels, monsters and demons, mythic characters, and the sometimes wry, sometimes grieving voice of a man once broken in heart, spirit, and mind. *Through the Eyes of Asunder* begins and ends with hope, and takes the reader through sorrow and sadness to bright moments of happiness and love.`` *“Neal Shannacappo is a spiritual thinker. The poetry and life’s perspectives he shares in this collation remind us of the unconditional love and support one can access through the Creator-given learning ways we as human beings are blessed to be born with. Read his words! Feed them to your heart, digest them spiritually and you will benefit from the medicine intended in every word and stanza.”* —Albert Dumont, 2021–2022 Poet Laureate for Ottawa and author of *Sitting by the Rapids*. *“Reading this book, it felt many times like I had stumbled upon a shoebox filled with letters not sent and journals put away for safekeeping. You feel like you shouldn’t pry, but you just can’t help yourself. It was a wonderful read.”* —John Brady McDonald, author of *KITOTAM* **Product categories:** Poetry **Authors:** Neal Shannacappo --- ### [Commonwealth](https://kegedonce.com/books/commonwealth/) **Published:** January 10, 2025 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** D.A. Lockhart’s collection of poems, Commonwealth, is a lyric meditation on the Indigenous migrations throughout the pre- and post-colonial American Midwestern landscape. **Content:** [Read an excerpt of Commonwealth](#) *Commonwealth* is a profound lyrical meditation on the pre- and post-colonial migrations of the Lenape population throughout the American Midwest, from the watershed of Weli Sipu (the Ohio River) in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to Indiana and beyond. This is a book that transcribes the languages of rivers, highways, rail lines, and buffalo traces. It seeks—or is pushed toward—destinations that are always over the horizon. It is about the fluidity of space and time, and the tangibility of history. As the Lenape journey ever northward and westward, they both create and are created by a collective body of stories: stories of belonging and exclusion, of freedom and confinement, of aspirations and hard truths. *Commonwealth* explores the ways landscape and people inform one another, and does so in a way that is as clear as a broad Ohio sky. **Product categories:** Poetry **Product tags:** American Midwest, displacement, Indigenous books, Lenape, lyric poetry, migration, poetry, Southwestern Ontario **Authors:** D.A. Lockhart --- ### [The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-trail-of-nenaboozhoo-and-other-creation-stories/) **Published:** October 15, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** A beautifully illustrated collection of sacred Ojibwe tales in Anishinaabemowin and English. Published December 2019. **Content:** [Read an excerpt from The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories](#) “The Trail of Nenaboozhoo is a remarkable and powerful collection of sacred Ojibwe creation stories that tell of a legendary past in which Nenaboozhoo, the creator spirit of Ojibwe legend, along with various beloved Animal Spirits, teach their wisdom. Transcribed from Isaac Murdoch’s oral storytelling, these stories are accompanied by beautiful illustrations by renowned artists Isaac Murdoch and Christi Belcourt. Many of the stories appear in both English and Anishinaabemowin. Moving, profound, and beautiful, this text is a vitally important contribution to Indigenous literature and to the preservation of Anishinaabe language and culture. From the Foreword, by Isaac Murdoch: ‘Everything we have can be accredited to the gifts from the spirit world. As we are now in abrupt climate change, we can see the world-wide ecological collapse happening before our very eyes. How important was the birch bark canoe? The wigwam? How important were those gifts that were given to us? I think they were very important. They were more than important; they were sacred. ’ ” ***THE TRAIL OF NENABOOZHOO* IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK!** Kobo: Apple: Scribd: **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch **Authors:** Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, Christi Belcourt --- ### [The Gift of the Stars](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-gift-of-the-stars/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Anangoog Meegiwaewinan **Content:** Before books there was the land. It taught our ancestors what they needed to know in order to survive; it challenged our ancestors to use what they had learned to edify their spirits, souls, hearts and minds. What they learned was revelation. *The Gift of the Stars* is the first volume of Basil Johnston’s Anishinaubaemowin Series. It includes twenty traditional Ojibwe stories to be read to children, and is fully bilingual, with glossaries for language-learning. “While also serving as a mantra for the study of the Ojibwe language, *The Gift of the Stars* advances the knowledge so necessary for Ojibwe students today. There is a critical need for academic materials to revitalize the language in a time when it does face ultimate extinction. Basil’s work goes a long way to stemming the tide.” —Dr. Cecil King, founder of the Indian Teacher Education Program, University of Saskatchewan. **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Children's **Product tags:** Basil Johnston **Authors:** Basil Johnston --- ### [Living in Harmony](https://kegedonce.com/books/living-in-harmony/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Mino-nawae-indawaewin. Published February 2012. **Content:** “In our ancestors’ ancient society there was only one abiding principle that governed all of life, of whatever species—plants, insect, birds, animals, fish and humans—and that was, ‘Live in harmony.’ There were no other laws or commandments. Be of good kinship or respect one another as ought next of kin. The key to understanding culture is language. *Living in Harmony* features ten stories in both Anishinaubaemowin and English, with glossaries to assist language learning. This is the second book in Basil Johnston’s Anishinaubaemowin Series of children’s books. The first, [*The Gift of the Stars*](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/the-gift-of-the-stars/), was released in 2010. **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Children's **Product tags:** Basil Johnston **Authors:** Basil Johnston --- ### [Amik](https://kegedonce.com/books/amik/) **Published:** October 28, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Children's board book in Anishinaabemowin and English. Published December 2021. **Content:** `See sample pages from Amik` ***The beaver is busy…*** This delightful children’s picture book tells the story of *amik*, the beaver, who works on his dam throughout the day while nature and the activities of other animals carry on around him. At the end of a long day, amik returns to his den to be with his family. Along with its beautiful cut-paper illustrations, *Amik* offers the chance for children to learn words and phrases in the Ojibwe language, as the text appears in both English and Anishinaabemowin. A fun, colourful and engaging book for children ages three through six. *Amik* won the 2022 bronze medal IPPY Award for Best Regional Fiction, Canada East; it was longlisted for the 2022 First Nation Communities Read Award; and it was shortlisted for the 2022 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Work in an Indigenous Language! Now you can **see and hear *Amik* being read in Anishinaabemowin**! Follow along with the video to start learning, or to just appreciate the traditional language of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Algonquin peoples. A short excerpt of the video can be viewed [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snK3eVTCQgU). **If you have already bought a copy of *Amik***, go to the [contact form here on the Kegedonce Press website](https://kegedonce.com/contact/) and send us the last Anishinaabemowin word of the story and we will send the link to the full video! **This reading video is a great resource for sharing this fabulous children’s board book with your kids!** **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Children's **Product tags:** Anishinaabemowin, children's, Ojibwe, picture book **Authors:** Sharon King --- ### [Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings](https://kegedonce.com/books/serpents-and-other-spiritual-beings/) **Published:** August 11, 2022 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Ojibwe stories in Anishinaabemowin and English. Published October 2022. **Content:** `Read an Excerpt from Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings` *Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings* is a collection of traditional Ojibwe/Anishinaabe stories transcribed directly from Murdoch’s oral storytelling, preserving the style and rhythm of the storyteller’s voice. These are stories of tradition, history, morality and object lessons, involving powerful spirit-beings in Serpent form. All of the stories appear in **both English and Anishinaabemowin**, with translations by Patricia BigGeorge. Murdoch’s traditional-style Ojibwe artwork provides beautiful illustrations throughout. *Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings* is the second book in the Ojibwe History Series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch. Volume 1,[*The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories*](https://kegedonce.com/books/oral-intellectual-traditions/the-trail-of-nenaboozhoo-and-other-creation-stories/) (2019), has been one of our best selling titles. ### Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings is now available in e-book format! Find it at the following links or wherever you buy your e-books. #### Search for ISBN 9781928120391 Scribd: Kobo: “’When the Thunderbirds and Serpents fight, they feed off each other, you know great medicine gets cast across the land. We get our life from that.’ So writes storyteller Isaac Murdoch as he shares his Elders’ stories about tunnels beneath the earth, rich laws, philosophies, teachings, power from up there, down there, and all around us, until we too hear the thunders as they bring us into the world of wahkotowin, all our relations. How privileged and blessed we are to be able to read the Ahtyokaywina of our people.” —Maria Campbell, author of *Halfbreed* “This writing gives an account of the reality of the Anishinaabe and how the elements of earth, water, air and fire play a sacred role and is bought to life by the language of the people, a language containing a depth of knowledge and blessed by our relatives KIISIS & TIBIIKI KIISIS.” —PAWAMI NIKITITICIKIW (the Dream Keeper), Wilfred Buck, author of *I Have Lived Four Lives* “What is that voice I hear in these stories? Resonant with memory, my body leans in to hear better. What is that voice? Why, it’s Granpa’s voice I heard as a child by the old stove so long ago. That well beloved voice that instructed us gently with feeling, wonder, and good humour and carried the stories into our lives so we could grow strong and upright. Miigwetch Isaac, for touching that quiet place in the spirit that, despite all this time and all that has happened, still knows, still remembers.” —Bonnie Devine, Founding Chair of OCAD University’s Indigenous Visual Culture program. “Gather around, for here are oral stories transcribed so they retain the flavour of a narrative spoken aloud, *and* translated into Anishinaabemowin; perfect for language-learners. I love the way these stories infuse the spirit world into an every-day context, these are not dusty old legends, but a living way of seeing the world around us in the here and now.” —Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, author of *Ghost Lake* **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Anishinaabemowin, history, language, legend, Ojibwe, oral_traditions, Stories **Authors:** Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch --- ### [Nipugtug](https://kegedonce.com/books/nipugtug/) **Published:** October 18, 2023 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** A journey into the forest and into memory and connection to home, community and language. Mi'gmaw author Emma Metallic gives us a delightful bilingual story beautifully illustrated by Natalie Laurin. **Content:** `Read an Excerpt from Nipugtug` *Nipugtug* (In the Forest–pronounced “nee-book-dook”) follows A’le’s, a young Mi’gmaw woman, as she snowshoes through the forest at different times in her life. On her journeys, she meets and converses with the animals and the trees, who guide her through the challenging and nourishing emotions of learning her Mi’gmaw language. Grounded in her relationship with the territory, A’le’s navigates memories of her language and culture that cling to realities within and beyond her life. A delightful and moving story illustrated with Natalie Laurin’s beautiful paintings, *Nipugtug* is written in both Mi’gmaw and English for language-learners of any age. “This story makes for a wonderful read-aloud experience for teachers, as well as a delightful book for independent readers. The engaging narrative and charming animal characters will captivate children, making it an excellent addition to both classroom and home libraries.” *Evaluator: Debra H., Elementary School Teacher, in Books BC’s “Books for Schools” listings for 2024-25. booksforschools.49thshelf.com/Books/N/Nipugtug* **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Children's **Product tags:** bilingual, children's book, Eastern Canada, illustrated book, Indigenous, Indigenous literatures, Mi'gmaw **Authors:** Emma Metallic --- ### [Without Reservation](https://kegedonce.com/books/without-reservation/) **Published:** October 29, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Yes, erotica is Indigenous! Published October 2003. **Content:** **Yes, Erotica is Indigenous!** What is Indigenous erotica? It’s about the loving, sexual, ‘dirty,’ outrageous, and ribald intimacies of humanity and sexuality that we all crave. It shows us as we are: people who love each other, who fall in love and out of love, who have lovers, who make love, have sex, break hearts, get our own hearts broken, who have beautiful bodies. It’s about all of the crazy, poignant, obscene, absurd things we do just to taste, touch, enjoy, and enter another. *Without Reservation*. Go ahead, sneak a peek… **An international collection of stories and poetry by: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Maria Campbell, Chrystos, Patricia Grace, Basil Johnston, Randy Lundy, Daniel David Moses, Gregory Scofield, Richard Van Camp… and many more!** **[Read a review of *Without Reservation* here.](https://anitaheiss.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/review-without-reservation-indigenous-erotica/)** **Excerpts from *Without Reservation:*** “…my whole abundant self curling fingers in his hair while he nudges and strokes the earth of me weightless…” —”Ochim – His Kiss” by Gregory Scofield “Or what is love? There is the love that you both know, where excited feelings make your skins tingle and the black centres of your eyes enlarge, as though you let each other into your selves through your eyes.” —”Cousins (Excerpt)” by Patricia Grace “I had thought to be immune to love, but which of us is ever that? My brother, a case in point. He was born dark-lashed and honey-skinned and all the little white nurses sighing for him before his first hour was up. He’s a man now, and walks down the street as all men, black or white, must do; it’s not his fault that hearts shatter as he passes. …” —”let me tell you what I want” by Melissa Lucashenko “if I ever needed you the silver and rain ever needed you and once again i said i needed you all through the nite the earth and stars and earth start again all through the nite if i ever said i needed you all night long and laid down my song and i laid down my song for you…” —”silver and rain” by Wayne Keon **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Studies **Product tags:** editor, erotica, Indigenous literatures, international, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, love, love poems, poetry, sex, short stories **Authors:** Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm --- ### [The Colour of Dried Bones](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-colour-of-dried-bones/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** The path to healing leads home. Published May 2008. **Content:** “A beautifully written collection of interconnected short stories told primarily through the eyes of a young Anishinaabe woman struggling with her relationships with lovers, friends, family, children, community and culture. As some relationships dissolve or are wrenched apart, others endure and gain strength. An intimate glimpse into the reality faced by many young First Nations women, *The Colour of Dried Bones* is by turns dark and brooding, sensual and filled with intense longing , infused with anger and brutality and, ultimately, uplifting in its portrayal of one woman’s winding path to reclaim her culture and sense of self.” **Product categories:** Fiction **Product tags:** Lesley Belleau **Authors:** Lesley Belleau --- ### [These are the Stories](https://kegedonce.com/books/these-are-the-stories-memories-of-a-60s-scoop-survivor/) **Published:** November 9, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Personal essays from a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Published December 2021. **Content:** ## Memories of a 60s Scoop Survivor `Read an excerpt from These are the Stories` *These are the Stories* is collection of personal essays comprising the life of a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith reveals her experiences in the child welfare system and her journey towards healing in various stages of her life. As an adult, she was able to reconnect with her birth mother. Though her mother passed shortly afterwards, that reconnection allowed the author to finally feel “complete, whole, and home.” The memoir details some of the author’s travels across Canada as she eventually made a connection with the Peguis First Nation in Manitoba. *These are the Stories* is an inspirational and courageous telling of a life story.`` **TEACHING RESOURCE ON THE SIXTIES SCOOP AVAILABLE FOR EDUCATORS*.* Contact Kegedonce Press.** **“This is a heartbreaking first-person account of growing up in ‘care’, and the danger children face when they are scooped from their biological families and communities… but this is also a story about strength in the face of adversity, the struggle to heal from trauma, and also a journey of reconnection, healing, and ultimately finding a sense of home despite grief and loss. When people speak of resilience, this is what they mean.”** —Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, author of *Ghost Lake* **“Christine’s story illuminates a pathway trod by far too many Indigenous children over the last 100 years. When Indian Residential Schools didn’t “kill the Indian in the child” Child Welfare agencies stepped in to finish the job. There was light however in the darkness for Christine, light that healed her brokenness through kindness, the connection of friends, and the reconstitution of a family. Lost and found, and lost again is a tragic summary of her experience of being scooped, to abandoned, to finding solace in the arms of a mother who died far too soon. Still, her strength shines through in her hope, her joy of storytelling, and her endearing ability to break open the hearts of those around her. She has a rare courage, and I’ve always admired her ability to show us all how it’s done, because this is a woman who truly understands how to ‘walk in beauty.’”** —Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Chair for Truth and Reconciliation, Lakehead University, co-author of *Historic Trauma and Aboriginal People 2004* **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** family, Indigenous survivance, memoir, Miskonoodinkwe, sixties scoop **Authors:** Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith --- ### [my heart is a stray bullet](https://kegedonce.com/books/my-heart-is-a-stray-bullet/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** "Laced with outrage, courage, whispers from the heart and a sincere unyeilding hope." —Richard Van Camp. Published 1993, 2002. **Content:** *my heart is a stray bullet* is the first collection of poems by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm. The poems in this collection examine issues of identity, positionality, desire, and unity from the perspective of a First Nations woman of mixed ancestry. “Damm’s cries for belonging seem to touch chords for all humankind.” –The Ottawa Citizen “Thank you for this medicine bundle. It’s filled with feathers laced with outrage, courage, whispers from the heart and a sincere unyielding hope.” –Richard Van Camp, author of *[Angel Wing Splash Pattern](https://kegedonce.com/books/fiction/angel-wing-splash-pattern-special-20th-anniversary-edition/)* **i witness** i will give you my testimonies and i will bear the brunt of your questions and disbelief i will offer my photographs as evidence and describe the captured moments with expert accuracy i will disconnect my heart and my head for the moment to show you what it is you want to know i will be there when the case is heard –from *my heart is a stray bullet* **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Poetry **Product tags:** Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm **Authors:** Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm --- ### [Emma's Gift](https://kegedonce.com/books/emmas-gift/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** An Indigenous children's picture book. Published November 2014. **Content:** Emma wants to participate in her community’s annual ‘King’s Day’ celebration that is held every year on January 6th. She loves to see the gifts that are given and hear the stories people tell when they visit. Her mother, however, feels that Emma is too young. When Emma’s grandmother hurts herself, Emma reluctantly agrees to help. In helping her grandmother prepare and serve her King’s Day meal, Emma discovers the meaning behind this special day. ‘King’s Day’ is about celebrating Christ’s birth and the Three Wise Kings who visited the baby Jesus bearing gifts on this holy day. Emma learns that ‘King’s Day’ is not only about exchanging gifts, it’s also about helping family and friends by giving one’s time. Beautifully illustrated by Jay Odjick. **Product categories:** Children's **Product tags:** Debora L. Delaronde **Authors:** Deborah Delaronde-Falk, Jay Odjick --- ### [The Crucible of Pain](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-crucible-of-pain/) **Published:** March 26, 2026 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** The Crucible of Pain is the third instalment in Coltrane Seesequasis's rousing four-volume A Wolf in the Sun series. Set against a backdrop of war between the animals who have inherited the world and the humans who wish to reclaim it, it follows the further adventures of unlikely hero Silversong, who finds himself caught in the middle of -- and must find a way to end -- a conflict that threatens to tear the world apart. **Content:** [Read an excerpt of The Crucible of Pain](#) ***In the wake of war, only ash remains*** *The Crucible of Pain* is the thrilling third volume in Coltrane Seesequasis’s epic *A Wolf in the Sun* tetralogy. The Forgotten Ones are the humans who ruled the world before the beasts took over. They have returned to conquer the land once more. After enacting vengeance on the wolves of the Four Territories, they embark on a long journey south where they hope to unearth the secrets of uncontested dominance. Silversong can’t let this happen. With his companion Frostpaw, he leaves his pack behind to hunt down the leader of the Forgotten Ones. Their pursuit takes them beyond the Northlands and into a region ravaged by constant strife, and as Silversong trades blows with the Forgotten Ones and recruits unexpected allies to the cause, he becomes further and further entrenched on the bloody path to war. If you’ve followed the series so far, you’ll now Coltrane delivers edge-of-your-seat excitement, rousing heroism, villains who think they’re the heroes (the best kind!), detailed world-building, and compelling character development. If not—you can start any time! **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks, Young Adult **Product tags:** adventure, animal fantasy, fantasy, fiction, Indigenous, Indigenous books, Indigenous literatures, wonderworks, YA fiction, Young Adult **Authors:** Coltrane Seesequasis --- ### [Niikaniganaw](https://kegedonce.com/books/niikaniganaw/) **Published:** September 1, 2026 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** Niikaniganaw means “all my relations” in Anishinaabemowin. It refers to our connections to every living being. And it is a concept foreign to Western medicine. In his graphic novel, Niikaniganaw, NShannacappo uses story to reveal the experiences of contemporary Indigenous people when accessing health care, in a system where they consistently endure the effects of colonialism, ranging from unconscious biases to overt racism. **Content:** **Indigenous perspectives on Canadian health care** Niikaniganaw means “all my relations” in Anishinaabemowin. It refers to our connections to every living being. When one of us feels lost, forgotten, or mistreated, we all feel it. It is an expression of mutual interdependence. And it is a concept foreign to Western medicine. The contemporary Canadian medical system, while predicated on equal care for all, in reality falls short of supporting many communities. When seeking medical help, Indigenous people consistently endure the effects of colonialism, ranging from unconscious biases to overt racism. This contributes to poor health outcomes and further compromises relations between Indigenous and settler communities. This graphic novel, as a co-production between the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, uses visual means to inform medical professionals of the experiences of contemporary Indigenous people when accessing health care. The stories include direct testimonials from Indigenous persons gleaned during surveys. In its three compelling and imaginative narratives, NShannacappo shows us how all things are interconnected, and how an understanding of niikaniganaw can bridge the gaps between communities to create a more humane experience for all. **Product categories:** Graphic Novels & Comics, Indigenous Studies **Product tags:** Current affairs, Health care, Indigenous, Indigenous books, Indigenous perspectives, Medical culture, Neal Shannacappo **Authors:** Neal Shannacappo --- ### [Wyrwood, Book Two of The Way of Thorn and Thunder](https://kegedonce.com/books/wyrwood-book-two-of-the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Heroes and adventure in a series based on Indigenous philosophy and wisdom **Content:** “The Sevenfold Council stands firm against Dreydmaster Vald’s treaty terms—they will not surrender the Everland. Their will is strong, but there is a traitor in their midst, and Vald intends to win this struggle… by any means necessary. As the Everland is torn apart by invasion and the threat of civil war, the young warrior-Wielder, Tarsa’deshae, and the little Tetawa Leafspeaker, Tobhi Burrows, travel to Eromar City, the centre of Vald’s influence, in hopes of rescuing the diplomats who have long languished in the shadows of Gorthac Hall. But only one remains alive, and he knows too well the price for fighting the Dreydmaster’s will. It will take all their strength, courage, and good fortune to escape with their lives. Whether they have a home to return to is another matter entirely…. *Wyrwood* is the second book in the remarkable *Way of Thorn and Thunder* trilogy by the award-winning author of *Why Indigenous Literatures Matter*.” **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks **Product tags:** Daniel Heath Justice **Authors:** Daniel Heath Justice --- ### [Walking in Balance](https://kegedonce.com/books/walking-in-balance/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Stories in English and Anishinaabemowin by master storyteller Basil Johnston. Published February 2014. **Content:** We have, according to our beliefs, five essential parts: body, soul, spirit, heart, and mind which all have to be satisfied equally. When you are in balance you are walking on the right road, following the right path of life.” – Basil Johnston. Eight stories, written in both Anishinaabemowin and English, follow up on the lessons and teachings of [*Living in Harmony* ](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/living-in-harmony/)and [*The Gift of the Stars*](https://kegedonce.com/books/childrens-books/the-gift-of-the-stars/). **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Indigenous Studies, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Basil Johnston **Authors:** Basil Johnston --- ### [The Power of the Little People](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-power-of-the-little-people/) **Published:** July 10, 2025 **Author:** Richard-Yves Sitoski **Excerpt:** The Power of the Little People is a collection of stories about the Maymaygwesiwak, the little people of Anishinaabe culture. Encounters with Maymaygwesiwak are are always instructive, for the little people are guardians of the earth and of tradition. These ancient stories will weave you in and out of the Anishinaabeg sacred blanket of knowledge that covers a people who have lived on the lands in harmony since their creation. **Content:** *The Power of the Little People* is the long-awaited third collection in Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch’s Ojibwe History series. It is an evocative collection of stories about the Maymaygwesiwak, the little people of Anishinaabe culture. Encounters with Maymaygwesiwak are always instructive, for the little people are guardians of the earth and of tradition. Their knowledge of medicine and ceremony is profound, and from them all humans can learn to live in agreement with the world. These ancient stories, originating on the north shore of Lake Huron, were transcribed from Isaac’s own storytelling. They possess an immediacy and relevance that is timeless. They will weave you in and out of the Anishinaabe sacred blanket of knowledge that covers a people who have lived on the lands in harmony since their creation. Like all the books in the series, the stories in *The Power of the Little People* are presented both in English and Anishinaabemowin, and as such the text is a significant contribution to Indigenous language revitalization. **Product categories:** Bilingual Books, Indigenous Studies, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Anishinaabek, Anishinaabemowin, Indigenous history, indigenous languages, legend, Ojibwe stories, oral_traditions **Authors:** Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch --- ### [Lightfinder](https://kegedonce.com/books/lightfinder/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Winner of the 2015 Burt Award for First Nations, Metis and Inuit Literature! Published June 2014. **Content:** “*Lightfinder* is a Young Adult fantasy novel about Aisling, a young Cree woman who sets out into the wilderness with her Kokum (grandmother), Aunty and two young men she barely knows. They have to find and rescue her runaway younger brother, Eric. Along the way she learns that the legends of her people might be real and that she has a growing power of her own. The story follows the paths of Aisling and Eric, siblings unwittingly thrust into a millennia-old struggle for the future of life on earth. It deals with growing up, love and loss, and the choices life puts in our path. Set in the Alberta landscape with references to real-world challenges faced by youth today, *Lightfinder* has proven to be a hit with young adults and adults alike. *Lightfinder* spent over 60 days on Amazon’s Top 100 Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels in 2014.” **Product categories:** Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks, Young Adult **Product tags:** Aaron Paquette **Authors:** Aaron Paquette --- ### [The Way of Thorn and Thunder Trilogy](https://kegedonce.com/books/the-way-of-thorn-and-thunder-trilogy/) **Published:** June 3, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Epic, heroic Indigenous fantasy trilogy on the scale and intricacy of Tolkien! Written by Daniel Heath Justice, author of Why Indigenous Literatures Matter! On sale at $30.00 for all three books (save $8.85)! **Content:** ##### ***The Way of Thorn and Thunder* Trilogy By Daniel Heath Justice, author of *Why Indigenous Literatures Matter*** **Beautifully written, intricately crafted, *The Way of Thorn and Thunder* series is an epic Indigenous fantasy on the scale of Le Guin and Tolkien!** The Everland has been home to the forest-dwelling Kyn and the other Eld-Folk since time began. A deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. Now the Everland is being torn apart by treachery and the ever-encroaching threat of Humanity and the mad crusade of the Dreydmaster. Tarsa’deshae, the fearless Redthorn Warrior and Wielder and her companions must fight to heal their wounded world. Will their roots hold fast, or will they be lost upon the storm? Illustrated by Steve Sanderson, based on original sketches and maps by Daniel Heath Justice, *The Way of Thorn and Thunder* was a groundbreaking work in Indigenous literatures, well ahead of its time. Today, it takes its place amid a welcome groundswell of Indigenous speculative fiction, the first fantasy trilogy by an Indigenous author in North America. **Read this [fabulous interview](https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2021/Indigenous-Speculative-Fiction-An-Interview-with-Daniel-Heath-Justice) about Indigenous speculative fiction and *T**he Way of Thorn and Thunder*. Daniel Heath Justice speaks with All Lit Up.** “Justice has created a fantasy epic so rich in history and so complex with all of its inhabitants and mystery that you’re never going to want *The Way of Thorn and Thunder* to end. What a treasure for anyone looking for heroes and adventure in a series based on Indigenous philosophy and wisdom.” —Richard Van Camp, author of *Moccasin Square Gardens* “Within these pages Daniel Heath Justice has created a world as complex and detailed as any we live in. It should be no surprise to find this book sandwiched between Stephen Donaldson and J.R.R. Tolkien, and I’m not just talking alphabetically. It’s truly a clever book.” —Drew Hayden Taylor, author of *Chasing Painted Horses* “There is action and adventure aplenty in this epic tale of conflict between Humans and other-worldly Kyn, but there is something deeper as well. Like the magic that imbues his imagined world of spirit-trees and talking beasts, a true sense of wonder and enchantment wells up through Daniel Heath Justice’s words. This is a realm that fantasy fans can immerse themselves in, and return to again and again: a realm that feels at once fresh and new, yet old as the oldest myth.” —Alison Baird, author of *The Hidden World.* **Watch Daniel Heath Justice’s video readings from *The Way of Thorn and Thunder* series on the [Kegedonce Press YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4MjIgYTKjUGfTad59-rUBA/videos).** **Product categories:** Bundles, Fiction, Indigenous Futurisms & Wonderworks **Product tags:** adventure, Cherokee, Daniel Heath Justice, epic, fantasy, Indigenous, trilogy, wonderworks **Authors:** Daniel Heath Justice --- ### [Candies: A Humour Composite](https://kegedonce.com/books/candies-a-humour-composite/) **Published:** November 4, 2020 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** Humourous stories and essays by award-winning author Basil H. Johnston. Published December 2015. **Content:** Basil Johnston was one of the foremost Anishinaabe writers and storytellers, and his comedic stories about life in Residential School, *Indian School Days*, is a classic. *Candies* was Johnston’s first collection of humorous works in decades. “Everyone who met Basil Johnston found him not only ingenious and sharp, but hilarious. Every single narrative he told–indeed every single word–was selected for meaning and layer. Spend time with him now in the pages of *Candies*, and find out why he is one of the best storytellers ever.” Niigaan Sinclair, Head of the Department of Native Studies, University of Manitoba. **Product categories:** Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Basil Johnston **Authors:** Basil Johnston --- ### [Go Down Odawa Way](https://kegedonce.com/books/go-down-odawa-way/) **Published:** October 28, 2021 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Excerpt:** From D.A. Lockhart, poetry from the Three Fires territory of Ontario and Michigan. Published December 2021. **Content:** ### **The first gift of creation is the turtle shell we tread upon.** `Read an excerpt from Go Down Odawa Way` [View the Book Trailer for *Go Down Odawa Way*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOlTWNFSDEw) on the Kegedonce Press YouTube channel. [D.A. Lockhart reads from *Go Down Odawa Way.*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcBs3ZoKwng) [D.A. Lockhart’s ](https://kegedonce.com/welcome-new-kegedonce-press-author-d-a-lockhart/)*Go Down Odawa Way* is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. This is the region currently inhabited by southwestern Ontario and southeastern Michigan. Individual poems and sections of this collection explore the documented villages, history, and mythologies of the Odawa, Ojibway, Huron/Wendat, and Pottawatomi nations that were lost to the process of colonization and relocation. The project speaks to the history of the region that predates contemporary Canadian and American borders and namings as well as carves out a history that extends back past the mere couple of centuries of European colonization. The narrative focal point of the pieces find their roots in the traditional Lenape vantage point of the author and seeks to draw on the experiences of a modern day urban Indian in connection with the manner that land has changed with non-Indigenous settlement and those that inhabit it. *Go Down Odawa Way* utilizes many terms taken from Lenape, the Southern Unami dialect, and Anishinaabemowin. A glossary is included. **“Lockhart, the virtuoso poet, provides us an impressive and brilliant work that is original, vivid, and is executed with haunting and lyrical force as he moves from one subject to another.”** Book review in *FreeFall Magazine*, April 2022, by Marty Gervais. Read the full review here: **“The culmination of language is song, and D.A. Lockhart’s *Go Down Odawa Way* is a song in which the vocabulary of memory obeys the syntax of sky, soil and flowing water. Its melody is the clear-spirited music of the Detroit River before the effluent, its rhythm is the 4/4 heartbeat of basketballs on hardwood, and its refrain drowns out with lyric force the 24-hour sonic barrage of auto plants. It’s a song which empresents history, a song with as many verses as there are members of a nation.”** —Richard-Yves Sitoski, Owen Sound Poet Laureate for 2019-2022 and author of *No Sleep ‘til Eden* **“Daniel Lockhart has taken the land and history of a place – southwestern Ontario and into the US, the traditional territories of the Three Fires Confederacy – and captured how urban settler history is scaffolded onto a deeper denser midden of Indigenous life and knowledge. Water is at the core, as is a blend of industrialized landscape, the natural world running ‘through midland hills/ past shuttered car part plants, beneath/ long neglected bridge ways.’ Lockhart’s weaving of the Indigenous and the industrial with climate change evokes how people live both with their traditions and with settler objects intertwining and complicating their lives, ‘pick-up truck is Indigenous/ in ways/ that birchbark canoes/ and flat/ soled moccasins/ never were.’ Here is a book of water, lake, robin and tree frog, basketball players and cigarette-stub streets contemplating ‘all the ways that places can be rewritten.’”** — Yvonne Blomer, editor of *Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds* **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Poetry **Product tags:** D.A. Lockhart, Lenape, Michigan, Odawa, Ontario, poetry **Authors:** D.A. Lockhart --- ### [Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop](https://kegedonce.com/books/silence-to-strength-writings-and-reflections-on-the-sixties-scoop/) **Published:** September 21, 2022 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Content:** `Read an Excerpt from Silence to Strength` From the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children’s Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of taking First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be known as the Sixties Scoop. Stories of the intergenerational disruption from loss of family and culture are shared in this collection, as are stories of strength and survivance. In *Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop*, editor Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith gathers together contributions from seventeen Sixties Scoop survivors from across the territories of Canada. These courageous writings show there is strength in telling story, and power in ending the silences of the past. **TEACHING RESOURCE ON THE SIXTIES SCOOP AVAILABLE FOR EDUCATORS*.* Contact Kegedonce Press.** **The contributors to *Silence to Strength* are**: Anna Croxen, Vonda Knipfel, Shaun LaDue, Alice McKay, Denise Mcleod, Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, David Mortimer, Arlene Noskye, Karen Orser, Doreen Parenteau, Shane Pement, Tyler Pennock, Cathy Phannenhour, Elizabeth Redsky, Terry Swan, Melissa Thomas (Sigvaldason), and Lisa Wilder. **COVER ART**: Miigwetch to George Littlechild for sharing his powerful artwork, “Horse Spirit, Helper, Brother” (2011) for the cover. **Praise for *Silence to Strength:*** “Here is the strength and the beauty of Indigenous adoptees telling our own stories, our own truths—all different, all connected, all vitally important. Kisâkihitin my cousins, you are not alone. Even though we were isolated and made to feel alone on this journey, these stories are shared by tens of thousands of us. Keep telling your truths, keep insisting on being heard. The power and pain of trying to find our way back home needs to register; Canada needs to listen.” —Lisa Bird-Wilson, author of *Probably Ruby*. “Indigenous adoptees give voice to the thousands of stolen children in *Silence to Strength: Writing and Reflections on the Sixties Scoop*. Ensuring that healing continues for other survivors, their gift of truth and remembrance is immeasurable. Each one rising above their negative experiences is a remarkable statement of who we are as Indigenous people; we are still here, we are home, we have a future. *Silence to Strength* describes how searching and reclaiming one’s birth family is a long difficult journey, wrought with pain and grief and that truth and reconciliation is about finding their truth and at best recreating their family and community. ‘Standard operating practices of CAS agencies,’ were illegal thefts of children, who were deemed invalid, erasable, blank slates. Indigenous adoptees were caught in a system of assimilation policies and the pressures put on Canadian parents to make Indian children into white children. Many of them rebelled and found their way back to their people. Their stories bring Indigenous voice and vision to the center of reclamation and rebuilding. In the era of truth and reconciliation, we must listen with our hearts and minds. What can we do today, to advocate for children caught in these systems of non-care? If we are to change our society for the better, we must hear their stories if we truly care.” — Dr. Brenda Wastasecoot, author of *Showing and Telling the Story of Nikis (My Little House)* “This collection of stories from sixties scoop survivors is heartfelt, deep, truthful, and positive. Writing personal stories of early trauma and loss are medicinal: seeing your story written by you is medicine that leads the way. It takes courage, perseverance, and support, to stay the journey. Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith, a sixties scoop survivor herself, provides space for other survivors to write, and tell their own stories, for the healing aspect of what this process accomplishes – ‘to let out the pain that we hold inside.’ Reading through the veils of colonial silence/violence, to the strength that propels one onward, I thought of Blood memory – a kind of genetic memory that flows through the generations. Asking questions of one’s life story leads to asking many more. These stories of survival all speak of hope; hope that their stories will reach others silenced by their past, and give them strength to open the doors to their own healing journey.” —Atik Bird, author of *The Percy Papers* **Product categories:** Indigenous Studies, Oral & Intellectual Traditions **Product tags:** Canadian history, essays, Indigenous history, Non-fiction, Reconciliation, sixties scoop **Authors:** Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith --- ### [Secrets of Stone](https://kegedonce.com/books/secrets-of-stone/) **Published:** June 12, 2024 **Author:** Wendy Bolton **Content:** [Read an excerpt from Secrets of Stone](#) ***Secrets of Stone* is an exciting new fantasy adventure novel from debut author Coltrane Seesequasis!** Centuries have passed since the forces of nature won the war against humanity. Sentient animals now rule a healing world, and as the stain of mankind continues to dwindle, a young wolf called Silversong is determined to rise in the hierarchy of his pack. Strong at manipulating wind and air, all he needs is a way to prove himself to his Chief. Before he can gain the respect he deserves, however, Silversong’s aspirations are cut short by the Heretic and his outcast wolves. Against all odds, the Heretic and his band of exiles escape their imprisonment far to the west and wreak havoc on Silversong’s pack. The exiles pose a threat unlike any other, and their enigmatic leader won’t stop his brutal conquest until all wolfkind submits to him. Silversong can’t let a monstrous wolf like the Heretic roam free. With the wind at his back, he pursues the leader of the exiles into forests of shadow and into ancient places better left forgotten. But the further he strays from home, the more he comes to realize that maybe his enemies aren’t so evil after all. Maybe there’s a reason for the destruction they seek… and maybe there’s a far greater danger lying in wait. ***Secrets of Stone* is Book One of a four-part Young Adult fantasy series called *A Wolf in the Sun*** #### *Secrets of Stone* is available in e-book format! 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