kîkwaya kâ-masinahikâtêki ôta ~ contents

FOREWORD by Jenna Butler

THE SOUNDS OF PLAINS CREE A Guide to Pronunciation

FAMILY POEMS

The Road to Writer’s Block (A Poem to Myself)

Trademark Translation

paskwâhk ~ On the Prairie

kiya kâ-pakaski-nîmihitoyan ~ You Who Dance So Brightly

tawâw ~ There Is Room, Always Room for One More

Perfect Not Perfect

tawastêw ~ The Passage Is Safe

pahkwêsikan ~ Bread

ê-wîtisânîhitoyâhk asici pîkiskwêwin ~ Language Family

ê-wîtisânîhitoyâhk êkwa ê-pêyâhtakowêyâhk ~ Relative Clause

Critical Race Theory at Canadian Tire

RECLAMATION POEMS

Cree Lessons

tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-âhpinihkêyan ~ How to Tan a Hide

aniki nîso nâpêwak kâ-pîkiskwêcik ~ Two Men Talking

nohtâwiy opîkiskwêwin ~ Father Tongue

ninitâhtâmon kititwêwiniwâwa ~ I Borrow Your Words

aniki nîso nâpêwak kâ-masinahikêcik ~ Two Men Writing

sâpohtawân ~ Ghost Dance

ê-kî-pîcicîyâhk ~ We Danced Round Dance

A FEW IDEAS FROM amiskwacî-wâskahikanihk

The Young Linguist

tânisi ka-isi-nihtâ-pimîhkêyan ~ How to Make Pemmican

HISTORY POEMS

maskihkiy maskwa iskwêw ôma wiya ohci ~ For Medicine Bear Woman

mistahi-maskwa

Take This Rope and This Poem (A Letter for Big Bear)

sôhkikâpawi, nitôtêm ~ Stand Strong, My Friend

kâh-kîhtwâm ~ Again and Again

nikî-pê-pimiskân ~ I Came This Way by Canoe

Spinning

Practicing for My Defence

Like a Bead on a String

ihkatawâw ay-itwêhiwêw ~ The Marsh Sends a Message

kakwêcihkêmowin ohci kânata otâcimowina ~ A Question for Canadian History

kiskinohamâkêwin ohci kânata otâcimowina ~ An Instruction for Canadian History

kiyâm ~ Let It Be

NOTES ON THE POEMS

CREE-ENGLISH CORRESPONDENCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

PUBLICATION CREDITS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS