kîkwaya k'-masinahik'têki ôta contents Foreword Jenna Butler ix The Sounds of Plains Cree: A Guide to Pronunciation xi Family Poems The Road to Writer's Block (A Poem to Myself) 5 Trademark Translation 12 paskw'hk On the Prairie 13 kiya k'-pakaski-nîmihitoyan You Who Dance SoBrightly 15 taw'w There Is Room, Always Room for One More 17 Perfect Not Perfect 20 tawastêw The Passage Is Safe 21 pahkwêsikan Bread 23 ê-wîtis'nîhitoy'hk asici pîkiskwêwin Language Family28 ê-wîtis'nîhitoy'hk êkwa ê-pêy'htakowêy'hk Relative Clause33 Critical Race Theory at Canadian Tire 39 Reclamation Poems Cree Lessons 43 t'nisi ka-isi-niht'-'hpinihkêyan How to Tan a Hide 45 aniki nîso n'pêwak k'-pîkiskwêcik Two Men Talking 49 noht'wiy opîkiskwêwin Father Tongue 52 ninit'ht'mon kititwêwiniw'wa I Borrow Your Words 58 aniki nîso n'pêwak k'-masinahikêcik Two Men Writing61 s'pohtaw'n Ghost Dance 62 ê-kî-pîcicîy'hk We Danced Round Dance 66 A Few Ideas fromamiskwacî-w'skahikanihk The Young Linguist 73 t'nisi ka-isi-niht'-pimîhkêyan How to Make Pemmican74 History Poems maskihkiy maskwa iskwêw ôma wiya ohci For Medicine BearWoman 87 mistahi-maskwa 91 Take This Rope and This Poem (A Letter for Big Bear) 94 sôhkik'pawi, nitôtêm Stand Strong, My Friend 98 k'h-kîhtw'm Again and Again 102 nikî-pê-pimisk'n I Came This Way by Canoe 107 Spinning 110 Practicing for My Defence 112 Like a Bead on a String 115 ihkataw'w ay-itwêhiwêw The Marsh Sends a Message 116 kakwêcihkêmowin ohci k'nata ot'cimowina 117 A Question for Canadian History 118 kiskinoham'kêwin ohci k'nata ot'cimowina 119 An Instruction for Canadian History 120 kiy'm Let It Be 121 Notes on the Poems 123 Cree-English Correspondences 127 Bibliography 153 Publication Credits 157 Acknowledgements 159.