but this respect does not come easily or naturally

empire expands itself through a transferable “Indianness” that facilitates acquisitions of lands

In its extraordinary range of character and culture

These loose-limbed essays range all over the landscape

What he's not used to is white people being nice to him — people like George Haddonfield

Spawn Mi'kmaq but this respect does notSpawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming of age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Marie Andre Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers? The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers'