Alternate Title(s)

Flight scape: a multi-directional collection of Indigenous creative works
Gatherings (Penticton, B.C.)

ISBN

0919441939

Statement of Responsibility

edited by Florence Belmore.

Publication Information

Penticton B.C. : Theytus Books

Physical Description

194 p. : 22 cm.

Notes

Cover art : Margaret Orr (Cree).

Contents

Editor's note -- Blueberries / Detour / Prayer / Now that the galleons have landed / Armand Garnet Ruffo (Ojibway) -- Burial dress / Lost and found in my own life / Carol Snow Moon Bachofner (Aberanki) -- Fancy dancer / Love story / The right thing / Untitled / Message from the conqueror / Dawn Dumont (Cree) -- Banana-Rama-Shama / Eric A. Ostrowidzki (Abenaki) -- Fever / Gerry William (Spallamcheen) -- Belinda the biker / ironhorse / the forgotten son / the line / Jane Inyallie (Tse'khene) -- Terminal frost 1 / Terminal frost 2 / Terminal frost 3 / Terminal frost 4 / Gordon Bird -- New age of circuses / Picasso's fall / Women made of earth and honey / Jack D. Forbes -- Burying my Mother / My answer to the Professor who said that I should write more like a man to be any good / On trying to make chit chat at dinner / Zuya Wiyan / Nagi Zuya Mani / Rosemary White Shield -- Thrown away / James Colbert (Chickasaw) -- Magic carpets / No reservation / Janet Rogers (Mokawk/Tuscarora) -- Because the feet of four Indian women might change the weather on the East Coast / Some things I know about love that might be of some use / Home songs / Kim Shuck (Tsalagi) -- Residing poem / Steal my thunder / coyote dreamz & rocks / Larry Nicholson -- Identity crisis / I know who I am / Leanne Flett Kruger (Anishinaabe/Cree/Métis) -- Mountain Bedded Rock / My pledge / Sockeye salmon dream / William George (Burrard);Life line / Green light, red light / Trophy room / Margaret Orr (Cree) -- Geronimo's grave / White picket fences / Troy Hunter -- Abused mothers wounded fathers / Vera Manuel (Secwepemc-Ktunaxa) -- Anishinaabikwe-Everywoman / Chi-Ko-ko-koho and the boarding school prefect, 1934 / Grandmother at Mission School / To the women who just bought that set of Native Amerian Spirituality Dream Intrepretation Cards / Winona conceives the Trickster / Linda LeGarde Grover (Chippewa) -- Dispelling the myth of STONEFACE / Laura A. Marsden (Anishinaabe) -- Daughter of the Sun / MariJo Moore (Cherokee) -- The cunning of Men / Yellow leaves / Rasunah Marsden -- The night Charles Bukowski died / Richard Van Camp (Dogrib) -- Honour song / Crooked nose / Sipping / Throwing stars / The viewing / Suzanne Rancourt (Abenaki) -- Respect / win blevins (Welsh-Cherokee) -- Watersong / Amy-Jo Setka (Métis) -- We have walked the same places / The voice of the Elders / Mukwa / How the beaver got his tail / Shirley Brozzo (Anishnaabe) -- Truth and Dare ask Raven "the big question" / Vera M. Wabegijig (Anishnaabe) -- Chasing the dragon / Just around the eyes / My mornings / The room / To be a child when it snows / Twelfth Christmas / Selina Hanuse (Cape Mudge/Nimkish) -- Horror Hill / Vanessa Nelson (Mohawk/French) -- "So yous wount be put away" / Kayenderes (Mohawk) -- Marguerite / D. Lynn Daniels -- The story of my childhood journey in the white wilderness / Dan Ennis -- Author notes.