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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Preface
  5. Epigraph
  6. Gifts of a River
  7. Dreams of a City
  8. Copyright

A Cree translation of the poem that follows.

nothing lay so clear

before those who stood

on these banks than the great

canopy of sky

that spread above them and

poured forth its endless light

and everything it seemed

stood eternal here

all that was laid bare

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