Totem Poles and Railroads (FNCR 2017) Syilx/Okanagan a skirmish with the Blackfoot

a skirmish with the Blackfoot

and Taima Moeke-Pickering

lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools)

Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times examines the Plains Cree perspective of their historical experience from the treaty period to contemporary times

Today it is known as the Lady Slipper

Totem Poles and Railroads (FNCR 2017) Syilx/Okanagan a skirmish with the BlackfootTotem Poles and Railroads 2017 FNCR succinctly defines the 500 year old relationship between Indigenous nations and the corporation of Canada. In this, her fifth poetry collection, Janet Rogers expands on that definition with a playful, culturally powerful and, at times, experimental voice. She pays honour to her poetic characters real and imagined, historical and present day from Sacajawea to Nina Simone. Placing poetry at the centre of our current